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Ultrafast changes in the optical properties of a titanium surface and femtosecond laser writing of one-dimensional quasi-periodic nanogratings of its relief

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One-dimensional quasi-periodic nanogratings with spacings in the range from 160 to 600 nm are written on a dry or wet titanium surface exposed to linearly polarized femtosecond IR and UV laser pulses with different surface energy densities. The topological properties of the obtained surface nanostructures are studied by scanning electron microscopy. Despite the observation of many harmonics of the one-dimensional surface relief in its Fourier spectra, a weak decreasing dependence of the first-harmonic wavenumber (nanograting spacing) on the laser fluence is found. Studies of the instantaneous optical characteristics of the material during laser irradiation by measuring the reflection of laser pump pulses and their simulation based on the Drude model taking into account the dominant interband absorption allowed us to estimate the length of the excited surface electromagnetic (plasmon-polariton) wave for different excitation conditions. This wavelength is quantitatively consistent with the corresponding nanograting spacings of the first harmonic of the relief of the dry and wet titanium surfaces. It is shown that the dependence of the first-harmonic nanograting spacing on the laser fluence is determined by a change in the instantaneous optical characteristics of the material and the saturation of the interband absorption along with the increasing role of intraband transitions. Three new methods are proposed for writing separate subwave surface nanogratings or their sets by femtosecond laser pulses using the near-threshold nanostructuring, the forced adjustment of the optical characteristics of the material or selecting the spectral range of laser radiation, and also by selecting an adjacent dielectric.

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  1. Belgorod State University, Belgorod, 308015, Russia

    E. V. Golosov & Yu. R. Kolobov

  2. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. A. Ionin, S. I. Kudryashov, Yu. N. Novoselov, L. V. Seleznev & D. V. Sinitsyn

  3. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. E. Ligachev

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Original Russian Text © E.V. Golosov, A.A. Ionin, Yu.R. Kolobov, S.I. Kudryashov, A.E. Ligachev, Yu.N. Novoselov, L.V. Seleznev, D.V. Sinitsyn, 2011, published in Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 140, No. 1, pp. 21–35.

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Golosov, E.V., Ionin, A.A., Kolobov, Y.R. et al. Ultrafast changes in the optical properties of a titanium surface and femtosecond laser writing of one-dimensional quasi-periodic nanogratings of its relief. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 113, 14–26 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776111050025

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