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J. J. J. Kaakkunen K. Paivasaari M. Kuittinen T. Jaaskelainen 《Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing》2009,94(2):215-220
Recently, the enhancing of bulk metals optical absorption with focused femtosecond pulses was demonstrated. This absorption
enhancement is caused by different nano- and micro-structures which are formed during laser ablation with ultrashort pulses.
In this paper we study the evolution of the surface structures using interferometric ablation and compare it to normal fs-ablation.
Previously we have shown that interferometric femtosecond ablation is an efficient method to fabricate absorbing metal surfaces.
In this study we ablated large areas of hole-array structures with different pulse numbers in polished stainless steel and
copper samples. The evolution of surface morphology and the depth of the holes for these structured surfaces are presented.
In addition, the reflectance of laser generated surface structures are measured at the wavelength range of 200–2300 nm using
a standard spectrophotometer. 相似文献
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Robert Lloyd Amin Abdolvand Marc Schmidt Philip Crouse David Whitehead Zhu Liu Lin Li 《Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing》2008,93(1):117-122
Utilising a Nd:YVO4 laser (wavelength of 532 nm, pulse duration of 8 ns, repetition rate of 30 kHz) and a Nd:YAG laser (wavelength of 1064 nm,
pulse duration of 7 ns, repetition rate of 25 kHz), it was found that during the pulsed laser ablation of metal targets, such
as stainless steel, periodic nodular microstructures (microcones) with average periods ranging from ∼30 to ∼50 μm were formed.
This period depends on the number of accumulated laser pulses and is independent of the laser wavelength. It was found that
the formation of microcones could occur after as little as 1500 pulses/spot (a lower number than previously reported) are
fired onto a target surface location at laser fluence of ∼12 J/cm2, intensity of ∼1.5 GW/cm2. The initial feedback mechanism required for the formation of structures is attributed to the hydrodynamic instabilities
of the melt. In addition to this, it has been shown that the structures grow along the optical axis of the incoming laser
radiation. We demonstrate that highly regular structures can be produced at various angles, something not satisfactorily presented
on metallic surfaces previously. The affecting factors such as incident angle of the laser beam and the structures that can
be formed when varying the manner in which the laser beam is scanned over the target surface have also been investigated. 相似文献
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Alex Spiro Mary Lowe Guerman Pasmanik 《Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing》2012,107(4):801-808
Experimental results on picosecond laser processing of aluminum, nickel, stainless steel, molybdenum, and tungsten are described. Hole drilling is employed for comparative analysis of processing rates in an air environment. Drilling rates are measured over a wide range of laser fluences (0.05–20?J/cm2). Experiments with picosecond pulses at 355?nm are carried out for all five metals and in addition at 532?nm, and 1064?nm for nickel. A comparison of drilling rate with 6-ps and 6-ns pulses at 355?nm is performed. The dependence of drilling rate on laser fluence measured with picosecond pulses demonstrates two logarithmic regimes for all five metals. To determine the transition from one regime to another, a critical fluence is measured and correlated with the thermal properties of the metals. The logarithmic regime at high-fluence range with UV picosecond pulses is reported for the first time. The energy efficiency of material removal for the different regimes is evaluated. The results demonstrate that UV picosecond pulses can provide comparable quality and higher processing rate compared with literature data on ablation with near-IR femtosecond lasers. A significant contribution of two-photon absorption to the ablation process is suggested to explain high processing rate with powerful UV picosecond pulses. 相似文献
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A. A. Serafetinides M. Makropoulou E. Fabrikesi E. Spyratou C. Bacharis R. R. Thomson A. K. Kar 《Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing》2008,93(1):111-116
The use of intraocular lenses (IOLs) is the most promising method to restore vision after cataract surgery. Several new materials,
techniques, and patterns have been studied for forming and etching IOLs to improve their optical properties and reduce diffractive
aberrations. This study is aimed at investigating the use of ultrashort laser pulses to ablate the surface of PMMA and intraocular
lenses, and thus provide an alternative to conventional techniques. Ablation experiments were conducted using various polymer
substrates (PMMA samples, hydrophobic acrylic IOL, yellow azo dye doped IOL, and hydrophilic acrylic IOL consist of 25% H2O). The irradiation was performed using 100 fs pulses of 800 nm radiation from a regeneratively amplified Ti:sapphire laser
system. We investigated the ablation efficiency and the phenomenology of the ablated patterns by probing the ablation depth
using a profilometer. The surface modification was examined using a high resolution optical microscope (IOLs) or atomic force
microscope—AFM (PMMA samples). It was found that different polymers exhibited different ablation characteristics, a result
that we attribute to the differing optical properties of the materials. In particular, it was observed that the topography
of the ablation tracks created on the hydrophilic intraocular lenses was smoother in comparison to those created on the PMMA
and hydrophobic lens. The yellow doped hydrophobic intraocular lenses show higher ablation efficiency than undoped hydrophobic
acrylic lenses. 相似文献
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Ultrafast thermomechanical responses of silicon thin films due to ultrashort-pulsed laser irradiation were investigated using
an atomic-level hybrid method coupling the molecular dynamics and the ultrafast two-step energy transport model. The dynamic
reflectivity and absorption were considered, and the effects of laser fluence and pulse duration on the thermomechanical response
were studied. It was found that both the carrier temperature and number density rapidly increase to their maximum while the
lattice temperature rises at a much slower rate. The ultrafast laser heating could induce a strong stress wave in the film,
with the maximum compressive and tensile stress occurring near the front and back surfaces, respectively. For laser pulses
of the same duration, the higher the laser fluence is, the higher the carrier temperature and density and lattice temperature
are induced. For the same laser fluence, a longer pulse generally produces lower carrier density and temperatures and weaker
stress shock strength. However, for the fluence of 0.2 J/cm2, the lowest lattice temperature was simulated for a 100-fs pulse compared to the 1-ps and 5-ps pulses, due to the increase
of reflectivity by high carrier density. It is also shown that the optical properties as functions of lattice temperature
usually employed are not suited for modeling ultrafast laser interactions with silicon materials. 相似文献
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Cumulative and continuous laser vaporization synthesis of single wall carbon nanotubes and nanohorns
A. A. Puretzky D. J. Styers-Barnett C. M. Rouleau H. Hu B. Zhao I. N. Ivanov D. B. Geohegan 《Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing》2008,93(4):849-855
The conditions for the scaled synthesis of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and single wall carbon nanohorns (SWNHs) by
laser vaporization at high temperatures are investigated and compared using in situ diagnostics. An industrial Nd:YAG laser
(600 W, 1–500 Hz repetition rate) with tunable pulse widths (0.5–50 ms) is utilized to explore conditions for high-yield production.
High-speed videography (50000 frames/s) of the laser plume and pyrometry of the target surface are correlated with ex situ
high resolution transmission electron microscopy analysis of the products for pure carbon targets and carbon/catalyst targets
to understand the effects of the processing conditions on the resulting nanostructures. Carbon is shown to self-assemble into
single-wall nanohorn structures at rates of ∼1 nm/ms, which is comparable to the catalyst-assisted SWNT growth rates. Two
regimes of laser ablation, cumulative ablation by multiple pulses and continuous ablation by individual pulses, were explored. Cumulative ablation with spatially overlapping 0.5-ms pulses is favorable for
the high yield and production rate of SWNTs at ∼6 g/h while continuous ablation by individual long laser pulses (∼20 ms) at
high temperatures results in the highest yield of SWNHs at ∼10 g/h. Adjustment of the laser pulse width is shown to control
SWNH morphology. 相似文献
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2 to 2.5 mJ/cm2 when a 0.5 ps pulse is used instead of a 15 ns laser pulse. Measurements on liquid indium show a different behavior. With 15 ns
laser pulses the threshold fluence is lowered by a factor of ∼3 from 100 mJ/cm2 for solid indium to 30 mJ/cm2 for liquid indium. In contrast, measurements with 0.5 ps laser pulses do not show any change in the ablation threshold and
are independent of the phase of the metal at 2.5 mJ/cm2. This behavior could be explained by thermal diffusion and heat conduction during the laser pulse and demonstrates in an
independent way the energy lost into the material when long laser pulses are applied. Time-of-flight measurements to investigate
the underlying ablation mechanism show thermal behavior of the ablated indium atoms for both ps and ns ablation and can be
fitted to Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions.
Received: 2 December 1996/Accepted: 11 December 1996 相似文献
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We demonstrate 12-ps pulses with up to 0.6-mJ pulse energy at repetition rates of 50 kHz and 100 kHz from a Nd:YVO4 slab amplifier built in a simple four-pass configuration. Excellent noise performance with pulse energy fluctuations below
0.8% rms has been achieved by using 10-μJ seed pulses from a highly stable industrial laser system and moderate gain (30–46)
in the slab amplifier. 相似文献
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The ablation behavior of single crystalline sapphire with nanosecond laser pulses at 157 nm wavelength is investigated. Ablation
rates of about 10 to 100 nm/pulse are obtained at fluences ranging from 1 to 9 J/cm2. At moderate fluences, incubation behavior is observed, i.e. ablation starts after material modification by a number of laser
pulses. The ablation can be utilized to fabricate sapphire micro-optics. The capability of creating lenses or gratings on
the tip of sapphire fibers is demonstrated. Multilevel diffractive optical elements and high resolution gratings with 1 μm
period are fabricated on planar sapphire substrates. 相似文献
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Ablation of bulk metals (Al, Cu) has been investigated in situ by means of high-resolution pump-probe photography using pump
laser radiation of pulse duration t
p=80 fs, at wavelength of 820 nm.
Depending on material-specific parameters, qualitatively different ablation phenomena have been observed. Structural analysis
by electron and optical microscopies reveals rosette-like surface structures showing the morphology of the ablated regions.
The temporal development of the ablation dynamics can be conditionally categorized into different characteristic time regions.
Particularly, laser induced melt injection has been observed in the time range of 700 ns to 1.1 μs after the initial laser-metal
interaction. 相似文献
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The selective ablation of thin (∼100 nm) SiO2 layers from silicon wafers has been investigated by applying ultra-short laser pulses at a wavelength of 800 nm with pulse
durations in the range from 50 to 2000 fs. We found a strong, monotonic decrease of the laser fluence needed for complete
ablation of the dielectric layer with decreasing pulse duration. The threshold fluence for 100% ablation probability decreased
from 750 mJ/cm2 at 2 ps to 480 mJ/cm2 at 50 fs. Significant corruption of the opened Si surface has been observed above ∼1200 mJ/cm2, independent of pulse duration. By a detailed analysis of the experimental series the values for melting and breaking thresholds
are obtained; the physical mechanisms responsible for the significant dependence on the laser pulse duration are discussed. 相似文献
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Bindesh Shrestha Peter Nemes Akos Vertes 《Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing》2010,101(1):121-126
Laser ablation of single cells through a sharpened optical fiber is used for the detection of metabolites by laser ablation
electrospray ionization (LAESI) mass spectrometry (MS). Ablation of the same Allium cepa epidermal cell by consecutive pulses indicates the rupture of the cell wall by the second shot. Intracellular sucrose heterogeneity
is detected by subsequent laser pulses pointing to rupturing the vacuolar membrane by the third exposure. Ion production by
bursts of laser pulses shows that the drying of ruptured A. cepa cells occurs in ∼50 s at low pulse rates (10 pulses/s bursts) and significantly faster at high pulse rates (100 pulses/s
bursts). These results point to the competing role of cytoplasm ejection and evaporative drying in diminishing the LAESI-MS
signal in ∼50 s or 100 laser pulses, whichever occurs first. 相似文献
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180 femtoseconds (1 kHz) and 10 picoseconds (1-50 kHz) ultrafast laser micro-structuring of the metals Ti alloy, Al and Cu have been studied for the purpose of industrial application. The effects of some key laser operating parameters were investigated. The evolution of surface morphology revealed that laser pulses overlap in a range around the spatial FWHM can help to achieve optimal residual surface roughness. While observed ablation rate (unit: μm3 per pulse) changed dramatically with repetition rate due to the combined effects of plasma absorption, residual thermal energy and phase transition, higher throughput can be achieved with higher repetition rate. This study also indicated that residual surface roughness is almost independent of repetition rate at 10 ps temporal pulse length. The ablation depth is approximately proportional to the number of overscan; however, machining accuracy deteriorates, especially for femtosecond laser processing and metals with low thermal conductivity and short electron-phonon coupling time. 相似文献
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J. Cheng W. Perrie M. Sharp S. P. Edwardson N. G. Semaltianos G. Dearden K. G. Watkins 《Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing》2009,95(3):739-746
Picosecond laser single pulse ablation of Au, Al and Ti alloy (Ti6Al4V) was experimentally investigated with a laser pulse
width of 10 ps at a wavelength of 1064 nm for potential industrial micromachining applications. The diameters, depths and
morphologies of the drilled craters were studied. Two novel phenomena were found: as hole diameters decreased with fluence,
a change of slope of the trend line indicated a change in ablation mechanism for Al and Ti alloy, metallic materials with
short electron-phonon coupling times (<10 ps), while Au showed no such transition: an isolated island structure was also observed
on Au due to significant melt expulsion. A one-dimensional two-temperature model has been used to discriminate different ablation
phenomena. It is shown that metallic materials with different electron–phonon coupling constant have different ablation characteristics
in the ps regime. This study could be very helpful for metallic material micromachining with high repetition rate ps lasers
pulses which indicates that high throughput may be achieved as well as good machining quality. 相似文献
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Thorsten Ulm Florian Harth Harry Fuchs Johannes A. L’huillier Richard Wallenstein 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2008,92(4):481-485
This paper reports the generation of fs light pulses by a passively mode-locked InGaAs master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA)
system. The laser system generates chirped pulses with 6.2 ps duration, a center wavelength of 922 nm and 4 GHz repetition
rate. Pulse compression by an external grating compressor reduces the pulse duration to 580 fs. The average power of the compressed
pulses of 851 mW corresponds to a peak power of 366 W. 相似文献
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In this paper, the multi-stage compression of picosecond pulses by cascaded quadratic nonlinearity is studied theoretically, and the dependence of pulse compression on phase-mismatch, laser intensity, and crystal characteristics has been discussed in detail. We demonstrate that the multi-stage pulse compression is much more efficient than the single-stage with a same total crystal length. Pulses as short as ∼150 fs can be generated by compressing 30-ps initial pulses in a two-stage configuration under the realistic crystal and laser conditions, and shorter pulses of ∼30 fs may be obtained by three-stage compression. Pulse compression performances with BiBO and BBO crystals are compared and discussed finally. 相似文献
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J. P. Fischer J. Dams M. H. Götz E. Kerker F. H. Loesel C. J. Messer M. H. Niemz N. Suhm J. F. Bille 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》1994,58(6):493-499
Plasma-mediated ablations of brain tissue have been performed using picosecond laser pulses obtained from a Nd:YLF oscillator/regenerative amplifier system. The laser pulses had a pulse duration of 35 ps at a wavelength of 1.053 µm. The pulse energy varied from 90 µJ to 550 µJ at a repetition rate of 400 Hz. The energy density at the ablation threshold was measured to be 20 J/cm2. Comparisons have been made to 19 ps laser pulses at 1.68 µm and 2.92 µm from an OPG/OPA system and to microsecond pulse trains at 2.94 µm from a free running Er:YAG laser. Light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy were performed to judge the depth and the quality of the ablated cavities. No thermal damage was induced by either of the picosecond laser systems. The Er:YAG laser, on the other hand, showed 20 µm wide lateral damage zones due to the longer pulse durations and the higher pulse energies. 相似文献
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Table-top 50-W laser system for ultra-fast laser ablation 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
B. Luther-Davies V.Z. Kolev M.J. Lederer N.R. Madsen A.V. Rode J. Giesekus K.-M. Du M. Duering 《Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing》2004,79(4-6):1051-1055
We have built a mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser with a very long resonator which produces an average power of 50 W in 13-ps pulses at 1064 nm and was designed for applications in micro-machining, the deposition of optical thin films, and the growth of nano-clusters in the laser-ablated plumes. By operating the laser at very low mode-locking repetition rates (1.5 MHz, 2.6 MHz, and 4.1 MHz), high pulse power is available in a near diffraction limited beam, allowing focused intensities to exceed 1012 W/cm2 and permitting efficient evaporation of difficult materials such as Si. The high power also allows conversion into the second harmonic at 532 nm with an efficiency exceeding 80%. Measurements of the ablation mass in experiments with metals show a 30–100 times increase in the ablation rate compared to the conventional low-repetition-rate ns-range lasers. PACS 79.20.Ds; 81.15.Fg; 81.16.Mk; 42.62.Cf 相似文献
19.
N.E. Karatzas 《Optics Communications》2006,267(2):498-504
Calculations are presented for the first four (odd and even) harmonics of an 800 nm laser from a gold surface, with pulse widths ranging from 100 down to 14 fs. For peak laser intensities above 1 GW/cm2 the harmonics are enhanced because of a partial depletion of the initial electron states. At 1011 W/cm2 of peak laser intensity the calculated conversion efficiency for 2nd-harmonic generation is 3 × 10−9, while for the 5th-harmonic it is 10−10. The generated harmonic pulses are broadened and delayed relative to the laser pulse because of the finite relaxation times of the excited electronic states. The finite electron relaxation times cause also the broadening of the autocorrelations of the laser pulses obtained from surface harmonic generation by two time-delayed identical pulses. Comparison with recent experimental results shows that the response time of an autocorrelator using nonlinear optical processes in a gold surface is shorter than the electron relaxation times. This seems to indicate that for laser pulses shorter than ∼30 fs, the fast nonresonant channel for multiphoton excitation via continuum-continuum transitions in metals becomes important as the resonant channel becomes slow (relative to the laser pulse) and less efficient. 相似文献
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Shifeng Du Dongxiang Zhang Baohua Feng Jing-Yuan Zhang Jing-Cun Zang 《Optics Communications》2009,282(14):2960-12186
We report the generation of high-peak power multi-wavelength picosecond laser pulses using optical parametric amplification (OPA) in BBO seeded with pulses generated in a 5-mm length BaWO4 crystal by stimulated Raman scattering of 18-ps laser pulses at 532 nm. The maximum output energy of the amplified first-Stokes component at 559.7 nm was about 1.76 mJ. The corresponding maximum peak power, pulse duration and spectral line width were measured to be 117.3 MW, 15 ps and 18.0 cm−1, respectively. The multi-wavelength picosecond laser pulses were in the visible and near infrared ranges. Using this Raman-seeded OPA technique, the beam quality of the stimulated Raman scattering pulses can be improved. 相似文献