• DocumentCode
    1673508
  • Title

    Polarization dependent femtosecond laser ablation of PMMA — role of light-plasma interaction

  • Author

    Villafranca, A. ; Popov, K. ; Guay, J.-M. ; Baset, F. ; Ramunno, L. ; Bhardwaj, V.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report elongation of ablation craters along the major axis of the polarization vector when irradiated by a single laser pulse above threshold energy. Numerical studies associate it to local field enhancement during light-plasma interaction.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser ablation; light polarisation; numerical analysis; optical polymers; plasma light propagation; PMMA; ablation craters; light-plasma interaction; local field enhancement; numerical analysis; polarization dependent femtosecond laser ablation; polarization vector; single laser pulse; threshold energy; Laser ablation; Materials; Plasma density; Polarization; Surface treatment;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326412