Enhancing the expansion of a plasma shockwave by crater-induced laser refocusing in femtosecond laser ablation of fused silica

Qingsong Wang; Lan Jiang; Jingya Sun; Changji Pan; Weina Han; Guoyan Wang; Hao Zhang; Costas P. Grigoropoulos; Yongfeng Lu

doi:doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000488

Photonics Research, 2017, 5 (5): 05000488, Published Online: Sep. 20, 2017

Enhancing the expansion of a plasma shockwave by crater-induced laser refocusing in femtosecond laser ablation of fused silica Download： 840次

Qingsong Wang ¹Lan Jiang ^1,*Jingya Sun ¹Changji Pan ¹Weina Han ¹Guoyan Wang ¹Hao Zhang ¹Costas P. Grigoropoulos ²Yongfeng Lu ³

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¹ Laser Micro/Nano Fabrication Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

² Laser Thermal Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

³ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0511, USA

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Qingsong Wang, Lan Jiang, Jingya Sun, Changji Pan, Weina Han, Guoyan Wang, Hao Zhang, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, Yongfeng Lu. Enhancing the expansion of a plasma shockwave by crater-induced laser refocusing in femtosecond laser ablation of fused silica[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(5): 05000488.

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