Issue |
Eur. Phys. J. AP
Volume 5, Number 2, February 1999
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Page(s) | 163 - 169 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:1999125 | |
Published online | 15 February 1999 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:1999125
Time-resolved studies of short pulse laser-produced plasmas in silicon dioxide near breakdown threshold
1
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (LOA) (UMR 7639
CNRS), École Polytechnique, ENSTA, rue de la Hunière, 91167 Palaiseau, France
2
Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI) (UMR 7605 CNRS), École
Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris VI, 91128 Palaiseau, France
Received:
2
October
1998
Revised:
29
October
1998
Accepted:
29
October
1998
Published online: 15 February 1999
Using the technique of frequency-domain interferometry, we demonstrate a new way of studying laser-induced breakdown at the surface of dielectric materials. A theoretical model based on electron production by multiphoton ionisation, inverse bremsstrahlung heating, and collisional ionisation is in quantitative agreement with both the detailed time variation of the dielectric constant and the pulse width variation of the fluence threshold. From the complex reflection coefficient measured with the two probe pulse polarisations in quadrature, we deduce the time variation of the dielectric constant of silica during breakdown.
PACS: 52.50.Jm – Plasma production and heating by laser beams / 78.47.+p – Time-resolved optical spectroscopies and other ultrafast optical measurements in condensed matter / 77.22.Jp – Dielectric breakdown and space-charge effects
© EDP Sciences, 1999
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