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Light field modulation of ejected \(\hbox {SiO}_{2}\) particles on fused silica surface

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The re-deposition of the ejected \(\hbox {SiO}_{2}\) particles on the substrate during laser-induced damage of fused silica affects the light field modulation and the beam propagation quality. In this paper, the ejected \(\hbox {SiO}_{2}\) particles were firstly classified based on the experimental results. Then, the modulation resulting from three types of particles, square, round, and triangular was simulated. Meanwhile, the influences of the particle shape, size, position, and laser wavelength on the field modulation were studied. It showed that the field enhancement factor (FEF) has crucial correlations with the particle size, position, and laser wavelength. When the irradiated laser wavelength was 1064 nm, the square particles located on the front surface, the round particles located on the rear surface of the fused silica generated the largest FEF, respectively. The FEF resulted from the round particles was the largest regardless of whether the particles locate on the front or rear surface when the irradiated laser wavelength was 355 nm. The results also showed that no matter what type of particles, they will be easy to induce the surface or bulk damage of fused silica when they are located on the front surface. In contrast, the maximum field modulation appears in the air when the particles are located on the rear surface. It showed that the field modulation was not the main reason to induce rear surface damage of the fused silica.

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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Author’s comment: All data included in this manuscript can be reproduced by performing simulations in accord with the approaches described here, or are available upon request by contacting the corresponding author.]

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11972313, 61505170, 61775235, 61705205) and the National Defense Basic Scientific Research program of China (Grant No. JCKY2020210C005).

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  1. School of Science, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, China

    Yong Jiang, Binjie Zhang, Hufeng Liu, Fawang Zhang & Decheng Guo

  2. Science and Technology on Electro-Optical Information Security Control Laboratory, Tianjin, 300308, China

    Biyi Wang & Wanli Zhao

  3. Sichuan Civil-military Integration Institute, Mianyang, 621010, China

    Yong Jiang & Decheng Guo

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The authors contributed to this paper in the following proportions: YJ (theoretical calculations, discussion of results)—50%, BZ (experimental analysis)— 10%, HL (experimental analysis)— 10%, FZ (theoretical calculations)—10%, BW (theoretical calculations)—5%, WZ (the simulation analysis)—5%, DG (simulation analysis, discussion of results)—10%

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Jiang, Y., Zhang, B., Liu, H. et al. Light field modulation of ejected \(\hbox {SiO}_{2}\) particles on fused silica surface. Eur. Phys. J. D 75, 282 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00293-3

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