Surface structuring of fused silica with asymmetric femtosecond laser pulse bursts
Surface structuring of fused silica with asymmetric femtosecond laser pulse bursts
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DOI:
10.1364/josab.30.001352
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发表时间:
2013-05-01
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Solis, Javier
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作者:
Hernandez-Rueda, Javier;Siegel, Jan;Solis, Javier
Fused silica surface structuring has been performed using temporally shaped femtosecond laser pulses. For this purpose we have designed pulse bursts with a triangular intensity envelope and different slope sign and interpulse separation that were experimentally generated using a home-made temporal pulse shaper. We have found that pulse bursts with decreasing intensity envelopes are remarkably more efficient in terms of surface ablation than bursts with increasing intensity envelopes. The results reveal that laser energy coupling in the material is enhanced as the interpulse spacing decreases. A study of the ablation depth using stretched single pulses was carried out and compared to results obtained for pulse bursts with different interpulse spacing. We find that the deepest crater was achieved with bursts of 0.5 ps interpulse separation and decreasing envelope. This pulse form also induced the largest change of the surface reflectivity after irradiation. The results are discussed in terms of how the laser energy coupling efficiency is linked to the temporal pulse shape. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America