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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 72, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.085128
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Single pulse transmissivity and reflectivity of fused silica irradiated by tightly focused 90 fs laser pulses at a center wavelength of 800 nm are numerically and experimentally investigated to study the role of nonlinear photoionization and avalanche ionization processes in free electron generation. The laser beam inside fused silica is modeled with a (2+1)-dimensional propagation equation which considers the effects of laser beam diffraction, group velocity dispersion, self-focusing, defocusing, and absorption due to the free electrons and nonlinear photoionization of the valence electrons. Comparison of our simulation to the experimental data reveals that the avalanche ionization coefficients are much smaller than some previously reported results and that avalanche ionization is of minor importance in generating free electrons in fused silica at the laser fluence levels considered in this study.
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