Laser-beam interactions with materials : physical principles and applications

1. Introduction.- 2. Absorption of Laser Light.- 3. Heating by Laser Light.- 4. Melting and Solidification.- 5. Evaporation and Plasma Formation.- A. Appendix.- A.1 Selected Material Data.- A.2 Green's Functions for Solving the Heat-Flow Equation.- A.3 Numerical Solution of the Heat-Flow Equation.- A.4 Units and Symbols.- A.4.1 Constants.- A.4.2 Variables.- A.4.3 Subscripts.- References.