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Phase Transitions in the Picosecond Time Domain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Hani E. Elsayed-Ali  and
Gerard A. Mourou
Hani E. Elsayed-Ali
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 East River Road, Rochester NY 14623–1299, 716/275–5101
Gerard A. Mourou
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 East River Road, Rochester NY 14623–1299, 716/275–5101
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Abstract

The physical processes occurring during the initial stages of ultrafast laser heating of metals are described. Femtosecond laser irradiation is used to create nonequilibrium heating in metals. In such a nonequilibrium state, the electron temperature can be heated up to a few thousand degrees above the lattice temperature. Electron-lattice relaxation is time-resolved in copper and found to be 1 – 4 ps depending on the laser heating ffuence. The technique of time-resolved electron diffraction (a lattice structural and temperature probe) is described. Utilization of this technique for lattice temperature measurement of thin metal films is demonstrated.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 77: Symposium D – Interfaces, Superlattices, and Thin Films , 1986 , 51
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

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