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Kumada, Takayuki; Otobe, Tomohito; Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Hayashi, Terutake*
Applied Physics Letters, 108(1), p.011102_1 - 011102_4, 2016/01
Times Cited Count：12 Percentile：49.85(Physics, Applied)The dynamics of photomechanical spallation during femtosecond laser ablation of fused silica was studied by time-resolved reflectivity with double pump pulses. Oscillation of reflectivity was caused by interference between the probe pulses reflected at the sample surface and the spallation layer, and was enhanced when the surface is irradiated with the second pump pulse within a time interval of several picoseconds after the first pump pulse. However, as the time-interval was increased, the oscillation amplitude decreased with an exponential decay time of 10 ps. The oscillation disappeared when the interval exceeded 20 ps. This result suggests that the formation time of the spallation layer is approximately 10 ps.
Hasegawa, Noboru; Nishikino, Masaharu; Tomita, Takuro*; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Kakimoto, Naoya*; Izutsu, Rui*; Minami, Yasuo*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; et al.
X-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources; Development and Applications XI (Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.9589), p.95890A_1 - 95890A_8, 2015/09
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：55.52(Optics)We have improved a soft X-ray laser (SXRL) interferometer synchronized with a Ti:Sapphire laser pulse to observe the single-shot imaging of the nano-scaled structure dynamics of the laser induced materials. By the precise imaging optics and double time fiducial system having been installed, the lateral resolution on the sample surface and the precision of the temporal synchronization between the SXRL and Ti:Sapphire laser pulses were improved to be 700 nm and 2 ps, respectively. By using this system, the initial stage (before 200 ps) of the ablation process of the Pt surface pumped by 80 fs Ti:Sapphire laser pulse was observed by the comparison between the soft X-ray reflective image and interferogram. We have succeeded in the direct observation of the unique ablation process around the ablation threshold such as the rapid increase of the surface roughness and surface vibration.
Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Ishino, Masahiko; Ochi, Yoshihiro; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; Kato, Yoshiaki*
Chinese Optics Letters, 13(7), p.070002_1 - 070002_3, 2015/07
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：7(Optics)Hasegawa, Noboru; Tomita, Takuro*; Nishikino, Masaharu; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Kakimoto, Naoya*; Minami, Yasuo*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Kawachi, Tetsuya; et al.
JAEA-Conf 2015-001, p.17 - 20, 2015/07
We have succeeded in simultaneous observation of the ablation front and the expansion front with thin filmy structure in the femto-second laser ablation process of a gold target by using the 13.9 nm soft X-ray probe (incident angle to the sample 
70 deg) with soft X-ray interferometer. The dependence on the laser local fluence and materials was obtained by the comparison between gold and tungsten.
Kumada, Takayuki; Akagi, Hiroshi; Itakura, Ryuji; Otobe, Tomohito; Nishikino, Masaharu; Yokoyama, Atsushi
Applied Physics Letters, 106(22), p.221605_1 - 221605_5, 2015/06
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：13.89(Physics, Applied)The dynamics of femtosecond laser ablation of transparent polymers were examined using time-resolved reflectivity. When these polymers were irradiated by a pump pulse with fluence above the ablation threshold of 0.8-2.0 J/cm
, we observed the oscillation of the reflectivity caused by the interference between the reflected probe pulses from the sample surface and the thin layer due to the non-thermal photomechanical effects of spallation. As the fluence of the pump pulse increased, the separation velocity of the thin layer increased from 6 km/s to an asymptotic value of 11 km/s. It is suggested that the velocities are determined by shock-wave velocities of the photo-excited layer.
Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Tomita, Takuro*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Kakimoto, Naoya*; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Minami, Yasuo*; Kawachi, Tetsuya; et al.
Reza Gakkai Dai-471-Kai Kenkyukai Hokoku; Tanhacho Ryoshi Bimu Hassei To Sono Oyo, p.9 - 12, 2014/12
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Kumada, Takayuki; Akagi, Hiroshi; Itakura, Ryuji; Otobe, Tomohito; Yokoyama, Atsushi
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We observed oscillation of time-resolved reflectivity of femtosecond-laser-ablated fused silica. We ascribe the oscillation to the interference between probe pulses reflected from a sample surface and a thin layer produced by the photomechanical effect.
Kumada, Takayuki; Akagi, Hiroshi; Itakura, Ryuji; Otobe, Tomohito; Yokoyama, Atsushi
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We observed oscillation of time-resolved reflectivity of femtosecond-laser-ablated polymers. We ascribe the oscillation to the interference between probe pulses reflected from a sample surface and a thin layer produced by the photomechanical effect.
Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Tomita, Takuro*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Kakimoto, Naoya*; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Minami, Yasuo*; Kawachi, Tetsuya; et al.
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Hasegawa, Noboru; Nishikino, Masaharu; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; Tomita, Takuro*; Suemoto, Toru; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Minami, Yasuo*
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We have succeeded in simultaneous observation of temporal evolution of two different surfaces of the femto-second laser ablation process of metals (Au) by using the soft X-ray laser probe. The ablation front with a solid or the liquid surface and the expansion front with thin film structure were observed from the results of the soft X-ray interferogram, reflective imaging and shadowgraph. The expansion front separated from the ablation front was thin, dense and smooth so as to work as the beam splitter for the soft X-rays at the time within 1 ns after the laser irradiation. The expansion front that included almost all of the mass of the crater inside was kept at the time around 1 microsecond, and the height of that reached over 100 micron. From these results, the ablation front gradually becomes vapor while maintaining a clear and smooth expansion front.
Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Tomita, Takuro*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Kakimoto, Naoya*; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; Suemoto, Toru
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Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Tomita, Takuro*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Kakimoto, Naoya*; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Minami, Yasuo*; Inogamov, N.*; et al.
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Femtosecond laser ablation processes on gold and tungsten were observed by the single shot pump and probe imaging using a soft X-ray laser probe. A clear difference was found in the temporal behavior of the dynamical response of the soft X-ray reflectivity depending on the irradiated laser fluence in two materials. The duration of the femtosecond laser ablation on the tungsten is shorter than the gold case and the narrow dark rings around the crater position were found in the tungsten case. Our experimental data lead to better understanding of the initial process of the laser ablation dynamics.
Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; Suemoto, Toru*
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Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Suemoto, Toru*; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Inogamov, N.*; Faenov, A. Y.*
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Kumada, Takayuki; Otobe, Tomohito; Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Hayashi, Terutake*
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We studied femtosecond laser ablation dynamics using time-resolved reflectivity with double pump pulses. We found that the time-scale of spallation was comparable to the theoretical estimation of stress relaxation time, which corresponds to the penetration depth of the pump laser divided by sound velocity.
Kumada, Takayuki; Otobe, Tomohito*; Nishikino, Masaharu*; Hasegawa, Noboru*; Hayashi, Terutake*
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The non-thermal effect on femtosecond laser ablation has been focused on for development of high-precision micromachining technique. In this study, we newly focused on a time-resolved grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GI-SAXS) measurement. In principle, the GI-SAXS can measure time-evolution of the morphology of the voids, which would be stretched in normal to the sample surface by the non-thermal effect. We can quantitatively evaluate the non-thermal effect from the asymmetric morphology of the voids. We succeeded in observing the scattering from a gold-deposited optical grating (1740 lines / mm), but not from a post-ablated crater on a gold plate. We have to decrease the noise level of the camera to pick up dispersed signal from disordered system such as the crater.
