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APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
Volume 110, Issue 3, Pages 579-583Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-012-7130-0
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- Grant ANR Ultra-sonde [0010 BLAN 0943 01]
- CINES [C2011085015]
- Ministry of National Education (France)
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Electronic excitation-relaxation processes induced by ultra-short laser pulses are studied numerically for dielectric targets. A detailed kinetic approach is used in the calculations accounting for the absence of equilibrium in the electronic subsystem. Such processes as electron-photon-phonon, electron-phonon and electron-electron scatterings are considered in the model. In addition, both laser field ionization ranging from multi-photon to tunneling one, and electron impact (avalanche) ionization processes are included in the model. The calculation results provide electron energy distribution. Based on the time-evolution of the energy distribution function, we estimate the electron thermalization time as a function of laser parameters. The effect of the density of conduction band electrons on this time is examined. By using the average electron energy, a new criterion is proposed based on determined damage threshold in agreement with recent experiments (Sanner et al. in Appl. Phys. Lett. 96: 071111, 2010).
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