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Optics and Photonics Journal, 2012, 2, 73-84 /10.4236/opj.2012.22011 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/opj) Effect of Experimental Parameters on the Fabrication of Gold Nanoparticles via Laser Ablation 1 2 2 2 Hisham Imam , Khaled Elsayed , Mohamed A. Ahmed , Rania Ramdan 1 National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt 2Materials Science Laboratory (1), Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt Email: hishamimam@.eg Received April 9, 2012; revised May 12, 2012; accepted May 22, 2012 ABSTRACT In this study we report the effect of laser parameters such as laser energy, laser wavelength as well as focusing condi- tion of laser beam on the size and morphology of the gold nanoparticles (GNPs) prepared in deionised water by pulsed laser ablation. The optimum conditions at which gold nanoparticles obtained with controllable average size have been reported as these parameters affected the size, distribution and absorbance spectrum. Effect of energy was studied. The laser energy was divided into three regions (low, middle and high). A noteworthy change was observed at each region, as the average size changed from 5.9 nm at low energy to 14.4 nm at high energy and the gold nanoparticles reached a critical size of 8 nm at 100 mJ. The Effect of the wavelength on the particle size was examined at 1064 nm, 532 nm. It was found that, the optimum ablation laser wavelength was 1064 nm. Finally, significant results obtained when the ef- fect of focusing conditions studied. Keywords: Laser Ablation; Goldnanparticle 1. Introduction