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Based on the overhanging beam three-point bending method, the experimental system was set up to measure the variety of shear stiffness of Nomex honeycomb sandwich panel in laser irradiation. The shear stiffness of the specimens under different laser power density was measured. The result shows that the thermal effect during the laser irradiation leads to the degradation of mechanical properties of Nomex honeycomb sandwich panel. High temperature rise rate in the specimen is another main reason for the shear stiffness degeneration. This research provides a reference for the degradation of mechanical properties of composite materials in laser irradiation and proposes a new method for the study of laser interaction with matter.

In order to research the dynamic process of energy coupling between an incident laser and a carbon fiber/epoxy resin composite material, an extinction characterization analysis of soot, which is produced by laser ablating and located in an air flow that is tangential to the surface of the composite material, is carried out. By the theory analyses, a relationship of mass extinction coefficient and extinction cross section of the soot is derived. It is obtained that the mass extinction coefficients of soot aggregates are the same as those of the primary particles when they contain only a few primary particles. This conclusion is significant when the soot is located in an air flow field, where the generations of the big soot aggregates are suppressed. A verification experiment is designed. The experiment employs Laser Induced Incandescence technology and laser extinction method for the soot synchronization diagnosis. It can derive a temporal curve of the mass extinction coefficient from the soot concentration and laser transmittance. The experiment results show that the mass extinction coefficient becomes smaller when the air flow velocity is higher. The reason is due to the decrease of the scatter effects of the soot particles. The experiment results agree with the theory analysis conclusion.

The experimental setup was established for studying damage effects on silicon photoelectric detector materials induced by 800nm and 150fs repetitively-pulsed laser. The detector is irradiated by single shot and multiple shots respectively. The laser damage thresholds of silicon photoelectric detector material were measured. The surface morphologies of the material damaged by laser were analyzed. The surfaces damaged by laser with different energy were compared. The thresholds vary with the number of laser shots. According to the accumulation theory, the damage threshold is the power function of the shot number. Experimental results show that threshold of single shot that damages the silicon photoelectric detector is 0.156J/cm 2 . The laser damage threshold decreases with the increasing number of laser pulses, but the minimum value exists. The damage is mainly caused by the mechanical effect rather than thermal effect. In fact, the thermal effect during the interaction is so small that it can’t even be observed. Resistivity of the silicon photoelectric detector irradiated by femtosecond laser decreases and finally tends to a constant value.

The laser coupling effect of material is a fundamental factor to influence laser interaction with matter. The coupling coefficient, which is the material absorptance of the input laser energy, depends on the surface conditions of materials, such as temperature, incident angle, surface airflow, oxidizing environment, and so on. To measure the laser coupling characteristics of materials, two typical online measuring apparatuses were developed in our laboratory. One is based on a conjugated hemi-ellipsoidal reflectometer, which is suitable to measure the laser coupling coefficients of different temperature in vacuum and air environments. The other is based on an integrating sphere and a simple airflow simulator, which can be applied to online measure the laser absorptance of materials subjected to surface airflow. The laser coupling effects on two types of structural materials, which are alloy steels and composite materials, are given in this paper. With the conjugated ellipsoidal reflectometer, the laser coupling effects on a typical alloy steel are investigated in different temperatures under the vacuum and air environment, and the experimental results are analyzed. According the results, metal oxidization plays a key role in the laser coupling enhancement effects. Especially, when the metal is subjected to high power laser irradiation in the high subsonic airflow, metal oxidization which is an exothermic reaction enhances the laser damage effect and the convective heat loss is negligible. Finally, the laser coupling effects on a typical composite material subjected to airflow are studied by using the integrating sphere with an airflow simulator, and the experimental results of laser absorptance during the laser ablation are presented.