LIPSS manufacturing with regularity control through laser wavefront curvature

Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures (LIPSS) manufacturing is a convenient laser direct-writing technique for the fabrication of nanostructures with adaptable characteristics on the surface of virtually any material. In this paper, we study the influence of 1D laser wavefront curvature on nanor...

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Autores: San-Blas, A. (Alejandro)|||/items/993474a8-032d-41a2-b4bb-77634ced390f, Martínez-Calderón, M. (Miguel)|||/items/67168752-bfc4-43a8-9ba7-9373e765e0b7, Granados-Mateo, E. (Eduardo)|||/items/1e884802-1d0b-499b-b0e0-673b79bfbae9, Gómez-Aranzadi, M. (Mikel)|||/items/45a818a0-2fef-4d81-8d67-4c2891e4be83, Rodríguez-González, A. (Ainara)|||/items/31e2e354-e6e6-4783-9c67-05b822778c96, Olaizola-Izquierdo, S.M. (Santiago Miguel)|||/items/dec34d5c-5a8b-4d22-b757-3684abc09c86
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/63354
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/63354
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:LIPSS
Laser
Femtosecond
Nanostructure
Coherence
Regularity
Wavefront
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Sumario:Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures (LIPSS) manufacturing is a convenient laser direct-writing technique for the fabrication of nanostructures with adaptable characteristics on the surface of virtually any material. In this paper, we study the influence of 1D laser wavefront curvature on nanoripples spatial regularity, by irradiating stainless steel with a line-focused ultrafast laser beam emitting 120 fs pulses at a wavelength of 800 nm and with 1 kHz repetition rate. We find high correlation between the spatial regularity of the fabricated nanostructures and the wavefront characteristics of the laser beam, with higher regularity being found with quasi-plane-wave illumination. Our results provide insight regarding the control of LIPSS regularity, which is essential for industrial applications involving the LIPSS generation technique.