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Optical Nanostructuring by Near-Field Laser Ablation

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The interaction of short, intense laser pulses with nanoparticles on a surface leads to laterally tightly confined, strongly enhanced electromagnetic fields below and around the nano-objects, which can easily give rise to nanoablation. This effect can be exploited for structuring substrate surfaces on a length scale well below the diffraction limit, one to two orders smaller than the incident laser wavelength. We report on structure formation by laser ablation in the optical near field of both dielectric and metallic nano-objects, the latter allowing even stronger and more localized enhancement of the electromagnetic field due to the excitation of plasmon modes. In the course of time, various improvements have been added to this technique, so that also more complex and even arbitrary structures can be produced by means of nanoablation. The near-field patterns generated on the surface can be read out with high-resolution techniques like scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy and provide thus a valuable tool – in conjunction with numerical calculations like finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations – for a deeper understanding of the optical and plasmonic properties of nanostructures and their applications.

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We appreciate numerous discussions with the groups of Carmen Afonso, Jan Siegel and Javier Solis (Madrid), Dieter Bäuerle (Linz) and Roland Oltra (Dijon), and also with Andrew C. Tam (San Jose), Minghui Hong, and Boris Luk’yanchuk (Singapore), Anton Plech (Karlsruhe), Andreas Pack and Reinhold Wannemacher (Chemnitz), and Hiroaki Misawa, Kosei Ueno, and Saulius Juodkazis (Sapporo) and their teams. In our group in Konstanz, we are in particular indebted to our master and PhD students Christof Bartels, Micha Bertsch, Simon Dickreuter, Julia Gleixner, Johannes Graf, Juliane König-Birk, Andreas Kolloch, Paul Kühler, Mario Mosbacher, Hajo Münzer, and Michael Ochmann.

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Boneberg, J., Scheer, E., Leiderer, P. (2023). Optical Nanostructuring by Near-Field Laser Ablation. In: Stoian, R., Bonse, J. (eds) Ultrafast Laser Nanostructuring. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 239. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14752-4_11

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