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1 April 2022 Experimental study of mechanical stresses induced by femtosecond laser inside the bulk of fused silica glass
Alexandros Mouskeftaras, Olga Koritsoglou, Olivier Utéza
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Abstract
We are addressing the need for better understanding of the mechanical effects involved in the femtosecond laser processing of transparent materials. By focusing infrared (1.03μm) laser pulses with a duration of 360fs and an energy of ~1μJ inside the bulk of a fused silica cube, we generate a plasma that absorbs laser energy. We then use a time-resolved microscope-polariscope based on a pump-and-probe scheme to measure optical transmission and stress-induced birefringence. Our methodology provides a link between initial ionization stages and the hydrodynamic response of the excited material thus allowing a full description of the interaction until the nanosecond timescale.
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Alexandros Mouskeftaras, Olga Koritsoglou, and Olivier Utéza "Experimental study of mechanical stresses induced by femtosecond laser inside the bulk of fused silica glass", Proc. SPIE PC11991, Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XXII, PC119910F (1 April 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2624906
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KEYWORDS
Femtosecond phenomena

Silica

Glasses

Plasma

Laser energy

Optical testing

Transmittance

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