Surface and bulk ultrashort-pulsed laser processing of transparent materials

Ingolf V. Hertel; Razvan Stoian; David Ashkenasi; Arkadi Rosenfeld; Eleanor E. B. Campbell

doi:10.1117/12.405703

6 November 2000 Surface and bulk ultrashort-pulsed laser processing of transparent materials

Ingolf V. Hertel, Razvan Stoian, David Ashkenasi, Arkadi Rosenfeld, Eleanor E. B. Campbell

Proceedings Volume 4088, First International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.405703
Event: First International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication (LPM2000), 2000, Omiya, Saitama, Japan

Abstract

Ultrashort pulsed laser ablation of dielectrics has been investigated using ex-situ morphological examinations in combination with in-situ time-of-flight mass spectrometry of the ablated species. Analysis of the energy spectrum of the ablation products provides a wealth of information on the processes occurring during femtosecond laser ablation of materials. The presentation will focus on the case of sapphire (Al₂O₃) and discuss the fundamental processes in ultrashort pulsed laser sputtering. Two different ablation phases have been identified, a gentle phase with low ablation rates and a strong etch phase with higher ablation rates, but with limitation in structure quality. A comparison of the energy and momentum distributions of ejected ions, neutrals and electrons allows one to distinguish between non-thermal and thermal processes that lead to the macroscopic material removal. Fast positive ions with equal momenta are resulting from Coulomb explosion of the upper layers at low fluence and low number of irradiating laser pulses (gentle etch phase). Pump-probe studies with fs laser pulses reveal the dynamics of excitation and electron mediated energy transfer to the lattice. At higher laser fluences or after longer incubation, evidence for phase explosion can be derived from both the morphology of the surface and the results of the in-situ experiments.

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Ingolf V. Hertel, Razvan Stoian, David Ashkenasi, Arkadi Rosenfeld, and Eleanor E. B. Campbell "Surface and bulk ultrashort-pulsed laser processing of transparent materials", Proc. SPIE 4088, First International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication, (6 November 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.405703

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