PICOSECOND LASER-HEATING AND MELTING OF GRAPHITE

被引:9
作者
MALVEZZI, AM
机构
[1] Dipartimento di Elettronica, Universitá di Pavia, Pavia, I27100
关键词
carbon; ellipsometry; graphite; laser heating; optical measurements; phase transition; ultrafast optical techniques;
D O I
10.1007/BF01184346
中图分类号
O414.1 [热力学];
学科分类号
摘要
Ultrashort laser pulses impinging onto solid, strongly absorbing surface deposit their energy within an absorption depth from the surface. This localized energy deposition may result in rapid and very efficient heating of the surface to temperatures far exceeding the melting or boiling point. Temperature evolution at the surface of samples and their electronic structure may be studied with nonperturbing, time-resolved optical diagnostic techniques. Picosecond laser pulses provide the fastest means for heating matter at high temperature, since the characteristic energy transfer times from photoexcited electrons to the lattice occur in this time scale. Surface evaporation is not affecting the observations in this time scale, simply because there is no time for the surface atoms to escape. As an illustration, measurements on graphite are presented here. The complex index of refraction of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) during picosecond laser irradiation has been measured at 1.06 μm via time-resolved ellipsometry at angles of incidence up to 80{ring operator}. In particular, a value of the complex index of refraction for the liquid phase has been derived. © 1990 Plenum Publishing Corporation.
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页码:797 / 809
页数:13
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