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LIPSS-covered annular ablation region induced on ZnO surface by focusing femtosecond laser beam spatially shaped by bubbles in cedar oil

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In this paper, without circular scanning of laser focus, annular ablation region was reported to be induced by femtosecond laser static irradiation of ZnO surface immersed in oil, and these annular ablation regions were all covered by laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) upon irradiation of either linearly-polarized light or circularly-polarized light. This novel phenomenon was found to be related to the bubbles in-situ generated and attached at laser focus inside oil during irradiation process. With increasing irradiation pulse number, the shallow annular ablation region transited to a deep annular groove, and the unablated region surrounded by the annular ablation region was finally ablated to a LIPSS-covered spherical-crown-shaped bump. Finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) simulation shows that the bubble at the laser focus may act as a beam shaping device to partly transform a Gaussian-intensity-profile beam to an annular-intensity-profile beam and the increased bubble size induces a decrease of the radius of the annular beam, which can roughly explain the experimentally observed morphology transformation phenomenon. Further analysis of light field transformation based on matrix optics further demonstrates that the annular intensity profile is originated from hollow beams generated after incident light passing through the bubble-type radial polarizer.

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Thanks for the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11974147, 11774220, 61205128).

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    Juan Song, Defu Kong, Xu Zhang & Hongjian Wang

  2. Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Ye Dai

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Song, J., Kong, D., Zhang, X. et al. LIPSS-covered annular ablation region induced on ZnO surface by focusing femtosecond laser beam spatially shaped by bubbles in cedar oil. Appl. Phys. A 127, 18 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-020-04149-2

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