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Single-shot front-side nanoscale femtosecond laser ablation of a thin silver film

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Nano- and microscale holes, as well as related sub-ablative nanospikes and sub-micron bumps, were produced in a 30-nm thick silver film on a silica substrate by single femtosecond laser pulses with variable pulse energies, focused by different strong focusing optics. Characteristic laser energy deposition dimensions exceed the expected focal spots by nearly 2 microns, indicating the considerable lateral thermal transport in the film, while the effective hole formation thresholds decrease versus increasing numerical aperture of focusing optics. Morphologies of the sub-ablative solidified surface nanostructures and numerical estimates of deposited volume energy density undermine blowing-off the molten film due to subsurface boiling and near-critical phase explosion at lower and higher sub-threshold fluences, respectively.

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  1. P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    P. A. Danilov, A. A. Ionin, S. I. Kudryashov, A. A. Rudenko, V. I. Yurovskikh & D. A. Zayarny

  2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), 115409, Moscow, Russia

    P. A. Danilov, S. I. Kudryashov & V. I. Yurovskikh

  3. N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 105005, Moscow, Russia

    E. A. Drozdova & S. B. Odinokov

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Danilov, P.A., Drozdova, E.A., Ionin, A.A. et al. Single-shot front-side nanoscale femtosecond laser ablation of a thin silver film. Appl. Phys. A 117, 981–985 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-014-8741-4

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