Abstract
The pulsed laser cleaning (PLC) technique employing different laser wavelengths, with a ns pulse duration, is presented. Such a technique can be applied to the preservation of cultural heritage artworks on different materials, like metals, ceramics and glasses to clean the surfaces of debris accumulated over the years, to remove the oxidation layers, the dust, the organic materials and other unwanted layers, restoring their original composition and shape. PLC should be preceded by surface analyses to control the state of the surface before and during the cleaning process, which has to be carefully controlled, in order to stop the cleaning before to damage the underlying original surface. PLC examples, applied to metals, terracotta and glazy ceramics, are presented and discussed using IR, visible and UV pulsed laser irradiations at low intensity.
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