Hydrodynamic simulations of metal ablation by femtosecond laser irradiation
- 6 April 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 71 (16), 165406
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.71.165406
Abstract
Ablation of Cu and Al targets has been performed with 170 fs laser pulses in the intensity range of . 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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