arXiv · cond-mat/0612585
Hydrodynamic simulations of metal ablation by femtosecond laser irradiation
Abstract
Ablation of Cu and Al targets has been performed with 170 fs laser pulses in the intensity range of 10^12-10^14 W/cm^2. We compare the measured removal depth with 1D hydrodynamic simulations. The electron-ion temperature decoupling is taken into account using the standard "two-temperature model". The influence of the early heat transfer by electronic thermal conduction on hydrodynamic material expansion and mechanical behavior is investigated. A good agreement between experimental and numerical matter ablation rates shows the importance of including solid-to-vapor evolution of the metal in the current modeling of the laser matter interaction.
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Jean-Philippe Colombier, Patrick Combis, Florian Bonneau, Ronan Le Harzic, Eric Audouard. 2006-12-22. Hydrodynamic simulations of metal ablation by femtosecond laser irradiation. https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612585
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