An ultra-short laser pulse irradiated surface passes through a sequence of physical
processes that occur over a wide temporal range, from femtoseconds to microseconds. In …

Femtosecond laser ablation (FLA) has been playing a prominent role in precision fabrication
of material because of its circumvention of thermal effect and extremely high spatial …

To understand the dynamics of ultrashort-pulse laser ablation, the interpretation of ultrafast
time-resolved optical experiments is of utmost importance. To this end, spatiotemporally …

Evaluating the optical properties of matter under the action of ultrafast light is crucial in
modeling laser–surface interaction and interpreting laser processing experiments. We report …

We present a setup for time-resolved spectroscopic ellipsometry in a pump–probe scheme
using femtosecond laser pulses. As a probe, the system deploys supercontinuum white light …

Many linked processes occur concurrently in strongly excited semiconductors, such as
interband and intraband absorption, scattering of electrons and holes by the heated lattice …

Atomic scale reordering of lattices can induce local modulations of functional material
properties, such as reflectance and ferromagnetism. Pulsed femtosecond laser irradiation …

Interferometry allows to measure microscopic displacements in the nanometer scale. This
work introduces an imaging pump-probe interferometer that enables to detect the spatially …

The ablation of thin metal films using ultrafast laser radiation represents a standard
processing procedure in laser technology. However, looking closer to the resulting …

The ablation efficiency during laser processing strongly depends on the initial and transient
reflectance of the irradiated material surface. This article reports on the transient relative …