High spatial frequency periodic structures induced on metal surface by femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 905-911

  Yao, Jian Wu ^a   Zhang, Cheng Yun ^a   Liu, Hai Ying ^a   Dai, Qiao Feng ^a   Wu, Li Jun ^a   Lan, Sheng ^a   Gopal, Achanta Venu ^b   Trofimov, Vyacheslav A ^c   Lysak, Tatiana M ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METALS; STAINLESS STEEL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CRITICAL VALUE; FIELD INTENSITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN TECHNIQUE; FORMATION PROCESS; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; LOW-SPATIAL FREQUENCY; METAL SURFACES;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

NICKEL; STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LASER; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LASERS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NICKEL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 84855926371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000905     Document Type: Article

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