Laser-induced nanopatterning, ablation, and plasma spectroscopy in the near-field of an optical fiber tip

Johannes Heitz; Sergey Yakunin; Thomas Stehrer; Gerard Wysocki; Dieter Bäuerle

doi:10.1117/12.816645

21 April 2009 Laser-induced nanopatterning, ablation, and plasma spectroscopy in the near-field of an optical fiber tip

Johannes Heitz, Sergey Yakunin, Thomas Stehrer, Gerard Wysocki, Dieter Bäuerle

Proceedings Volume 7131, XVII International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers; 71311W (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.816645
Event: XVII International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High Power Lasers, 2008, Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract

We combine laser processing and the technique of a scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) for realization of laser-patterning on a nanoscale, laser ablation near the fiber tip, and micro-analysis of solid surface samples by laserinduced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). We describe an universal SNOM-like setup allowing to produce near-field laser patterns by laser heating and laser ablation, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, and atomic force microscope (AFM) topography investigation with the same optical fiber tip, which is used as near-field emitter or as probe. With solid Si and Al samples, three laser processing regimes were observed with increasing laser pulse energy: (1) cone formation (only for Si, smallest features with 500 nm width and 100 nm height), (2) formation of small craters (smallest features with 450 nm width and 250 nm depth), and (3) crater formation with a width of more than 2 μm with emission of evaluable plasma emission line spectra.

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Johannes Heitz, Sergey Yakunin, Thomas Stehrer, Gerard Wysocki, and Dieter Bäuerle "Laser-induced nanopatterning, ablation, and plasma spectroscopy in the near-field of an optical fiber tip", Proc. SPIE 7131, XVII International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers, 71311W (21 April 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.816645

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