Το work with title Investigations on cleaning of black crusted sandstone using different UV-pulsed lasers by Maravelaki Pagona, Marakis, G., Zafiropulos, V., Stephan Klein, Hildenhagen, Jens, Klaus Dickmann is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
G. Marakis, P. Maravelaki, V. Zafiropulos, S. Klein, J. Hildenhagen, K. Dickmann,
“Investigations on cleaning of black crusted sandstone using different UV-pulsed
lasers”, Journ. Cult. Herit., vol.1, pp. 61s-64s., Aug. 2000. doi:10.1016/S1296-2074(00)00193-X
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1296-2074(00)00193-X
Laser cleaning of stone is mainly based on Nd:YAG laser radiation at λ=1 064 nm. Within an international co-operation, experimental studies concerning the application of various UV-wavelengths were carried out. The studies were performed using 355 nm (3rd harmonic of Nd:YAG), 308 nm (XeCl-Excimer) and 248 nm (KrF-Excimer) and in comparison 1 064 nm (Nd:YAG fundamental). Sandstone samples from the Dresden Zwinger (Germany), called Elbsandstein, covered by a superficial black crust were used for laser ablation rate studies. The ablation rates (mg per pulse) were measured with respect to the laser fluence.