Comparison of temperature field due to laser step input and time exponentially varying pulses

Laser evaporative heating of the solid surface is considered and the effect of temporal variation of laser pulse shape on temperature rise is examined. In the analysis, time exponentially varying and step input pulses are employed and closed-form solutions for temperature rise are presented. Comparison of temporal variation of surface temperature is carried out for various laser pulse parameters of exponential and step input pulses. The pulse energies are kept the same for all pulses used in the comparison. It is found that temperature distributions corresponding to pulses used in the simulations are different and temperature decay in cooling cycle (after ending of the laser pulse) is clearly evident for step input pulses; however, this is not clearly identified for exponential pulses.