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Femtosecond pulse laser-induced self-organized nanogratings on the surface of a ZnSe crystal

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Periodic nanostructures are observed on the surface of ZnSe after irradiation by a focused beam of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser, which are aligned perpendicular to the laser polarization direction. The period of self-organized grating structures is about 160 nm. The phenomenon is interpreted in terms of interference between the incident light field and the surface scattered wave of 800-nm laser pulses. With the laser polarization parallel to the moving direction we produce long-range Bragg-like gratings by slowly moving the crystal under a fixed laser focus. The nanograting orientation is adjusted by laser polarization and the accumulation effect.

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  1. Instrumental Analysis & Research Center, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, P.R. China

    H.L. Ma, Y. Guo & M.J. Zhong

  2. State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, P.R. China

    R.X. Li

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81.16.Rf; 78.67.-n; 33.80.Rv; 82.53.Mj; 81.16.-c

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Ma, H., Guo, Y., Zhong, M. et al. Femtosecond pulse laser-induced self-organized nanogratings on the surface of a ZnSe crystal. Appl. Phys. A 89, 707–709 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-007-4147-x

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