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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 83, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.115426
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [08-08-00756a, 09-02-12018-OFI_M, 10-08-00941a, 11-02-01202a, 11-07-00273a, 11-08-01165a, 11-08-00457a]
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Superimposed one-dimensional quasiperiodic gratings with multiple periods Lambda approximate to 110-800 nm well below or comparable to the pump laser wavelength of 744 nm, and ridge orientations perpendicular to the linear polarization of infrared femtosecond laser pulses, were fabricated after multiple near-threshold laser shots on a planar surface of quasimonocrystalline graphite in ambient air. The broad range of the grating periods corresponds to the large number of spatial Fourier harmonics of the final nanorelief (up to m = 7th order, Lambda(m) approximate to 800 nm/m = 110-800 nm), qualitatively representing the nonsinusoidal profile of the laser-induced intermediate surface relief (the set of periodic, broadly spaced narrow nanotrenches), which provides the corresponding multiangle diffraction of the incident femtosecond laser pulses. Experimental measurements and modeling of the transient optical constants of the photoexcited graphite justify the excitation, at the first stage, of the first-order (Lambda(1) approximate to 800 nm) surface plasmon-polaritonic (SPP) wave on the photo-excited initial planar graphite surface becoming metallic via photo-generation of dense electron hole plasma (similar to 10(21) cm(-3)). Such an SPP wave provides intermediate nanorelief in the form of the nonsinusoidal surface grating via its interference with the incident laser wave, resulting under near-threshold laser irradiation conditions in the highly localized surface ablation of the material in the interference maxima. During the next stage, the multiperiod subwavelength nanogratings develop through the multiangle diffraction of the multiple incident laser pulses on the intermediate nonsinusoidal surface grating.
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