Enhanced filament ablation of metals based on plasma grating in air

  • Di Wang
  • , Shuai Yuan
  • , Fengjiang Liu
  • , Liangen Ding
  • , Heping Zeng*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We demonstrate efficient ablation of metals with filamentary plasma grating generated by two intense blue femtosecond filaments and a third focused infrared pulse. This scheme leads to significant promotion of ablation efficiency on metal targets in air in comparison with single infrared or blue filament with equal pulse energy. The reason is that the blue plasma grating firstly provides stronger intensity and a higher density of background electrons, then the delayed infrared pulse accelerates local electrons inside the plasma grating. These two processes finally results in robustly increased electron density and highly ionized metallic atoms.

Original languageEnglish
Article number097215
JournalAIP Advances
Volume5
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2015

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