Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 167602 (2007) [4 pages]Time-Resolved Shadowgraphs of Material Ejection in Intense Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Aluminum
See accompanying Physics Focus The dynamic process of intense 50 fs laser ablation of aluminum is investigated by ultrafast time-resolved microscopy. A stripe pattern preceding phase explosion is clearly seen in the shadowgraph of 1 ns time delay. Intermittent material ejections are observed within the ejected plume after 2.5 and 7 ns time delay, respectively, which may be attributed to the material response to the generation of an extremely strong thermoelastic wave. Similar processes are also recorded in the ablation of silicon and glass samples, except for the glass samples, the intermittent material ejections are not found. © 2007 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.167602
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.167602
PACS:
79.20.Ds, 78.47.+p
See AlsoComment: Nadezhda M. Bulgakova and Alexander V. Bulgakov, Comment on “Time-Resolved Shadowgraphs of Material Ejection in Intense Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Aluminum”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 099701 (2008). Reply: Nan Zhang and Xiaonong Zhu, Zhang and Zhu Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 099702 (2008). |
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