Abstract
Multiple 11-fs infrared, few-cycle laser pulses were applied to a polycrystal ZnSe surface to study the evolution of surface damage morphologies. The polycrystalline grain boundaries seem to be the initiation site of surface damage and formation of ripples, which evolve as the result of many laser pulses at the same site. Scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were applied to characterize the surface. The crystalline change and material phase transition were examined by confocal Raman spectroscopy. The thermal expansion coefficient increased slightly in the ablated zone compared to the non-ablated zone according to an AFM thermal tip test. The results show the growth and organization of surface ripples and the change of thermal properties as the number of irradiations at each site increases.
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