Production of amorphous graphite in picosecond laser interaction experiments

Michail B. Agranat; Sergei I. Anisimov; Sergei I. Ashitkov; Vladimir E. Fortov; Alexander V. Kirillin; Petr S. Kondratenko; Alexander V. Kostanovskii

doi:10.1117/12.321517

14 September 1998 Production of amorphous graphite in picosecond laser interaction experiments

Michail B. Agranat, Sergei I. Anisimov, Sergei I. Ashitkov, Vladimir E. Fortov, Alexander V. Kirillin, Petr S. Kondratenko, Alexander V. Kostanovskii

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Proceedings Volume 3343, High-Power Laser Ablation; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.321517
Event: High-Power Laser Ablation, 1998, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Abstract

Formation of a liquid phase with subsequent transition to a uniform amorphous state of surface layer upon solidification is observed under action of picosecond laser pulses on microcrystalline graphite. This phenomenon is registered on a definite type of graphite and with the radiation incident on a plane parallel to the sixfold symmetry axis, and only for certain parameters of laser pulse. A study of melting and solidification of graphite is performed using a new method based on partial transmission of incident p-polarized wave into s-polarized reflected wave due to optical anisotropy. A structural analysis of the amorphous phase is performed by electron microscopy and Raman scattering spectroscopy. Periodic surface structures with a period of the order of the wavelength of the heating pulse was detected on amorphous graphite region. The orientation of the structures correlates with polarization of incident laser pulse. The instability to formation of these structures is assumed to be connected with surface electromagnetic wave excitation. The characteristic time of existing of liquid phase and of solidification processes is determined to be approximately 10^-10 s.

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Michail B. Agranat, Sergei I. Anisimov, Sergei I. Ashitkov, Vladimir E. Fortov, Alexander V. Kirillin, Petr S. Kondratenko, and Alexander V. Kostanovskii "Production of amorphous graphite in picosecond laser interaction experiments", Proc. SPIE 3343, High-Power Laser Ablation, (14 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.321517

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