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Title: Resonant-Plasmon-Assisted Subwavelength Ablation by a Femtosecond Oscillator

Abstract

Here, we experimentally demonstrate the use of subwavelength optical nanoantennas to assist a direct nanoscale ablation using the ultralow fluence of a Ti:sapphire oscillator through the excitation of surface plasmon waves. The mechanism is attributed to nonthermal transient unbonding and electrostatic ablation, which is triggered by the surface plasmon-enhanced field electron emission and acceleration in vacuum. We show that the electron-driven ablation appears for both nanoscale metallic as well as dielectric materials. While the observed surface plasmon-enhanced local ablation may limit the applications of nanostructured surfaces in extreme nonlinear nanophotonics, it, nevertheless, also provides a method for nanomachining, manipulation, and modification of nanoscale materials. Lastly, collateral thermal damage to the antenna structure can be suitably avoided, and nonlinear conversion processes can be stabilized by a dielectric overcoating of the antenna.

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 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [4];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [9];  [1];  [4];  [10];  [3];  [1]
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  1. Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Hannover (Germany). Inst. fur Quantenoptik; Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research (QUEST), Hannover (Germany)
  2. Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Hannover (Germany). Inst. fur Quantenoptik; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE)
  3. Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  4. Korea Advanced Inst. Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (Korea, Republic of). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  5. Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Hannover (Germany). Inst. fur Werkstoffkunde
  6. Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover (Germany); Hochschule Bremen City Univ. of Applied Sciences, Bremen (Germany)
  7. Univ. of Twente, Enschede (Netherlands). Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics, MESA+Inst. for Nanotechnology
  8. Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Hannover (Germany). Inst. fur Quantenoptik; Laser-Laboratorium Gottingen e.V., Gottingen (Germany); Max-Born-Inst., Berlin (Germany)
  9. eibniz Univ. Hannover, Hannover (Germany). Inst. fur Quantenoptik; Max-Born-Inst., Berlin (Germany)
  10. Max-Born-Inst., Berlin (Germany)
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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; German Research Foundation (DFG); European Union (EU)
OSTI Identifier:
1424720
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; KO 3798/4-1
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Applied
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Atomic, Molecular & Optical; Plasma Physics; Nanoantennas

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Shi, Liping, Iwan, Bianca, Ripault, Quentin, Andrade, José R. C., Han, Seunghwoi, Kim, Hyunwoong, Boutu, Willem, Franz, Dominik, Nicolas, Rana, Heidenblut, Torsten, Reinhardt, Carsten, Bastiaens, Bert, Nagy, Tamas, Babuskin, Ihar, Morgner, Uwe, Kim, Seung-Woo, Steinmeyer, Günter, Merdji, Hamed, and Kovačev, Milutin. Resonant-Plasmon-Assisted Subwavelength Ablation by a Femtosecond Oscillator. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.9.024001.
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Shi, Liping, Iwan, Bianca, Ripault, Quentin, Andrade, José R. C., Han, Seunghwoi, Kim, Hyunwoong, Boutu, Willem, Franz, Dominik, Nicolas, Rana, Heidenblut, Torsten, Reinhardt, Carsten, Bastiaens, Bert, Nagy, Tamas, Babuskin, Ihar, Morgner, Uwe, Kim, Seung-Woo, Steinmeyer, Günter, Merdji, Hamed, & Kovačev, Milutin. Resonant-Plasmon-Assisted Subwavelength Ablation by a Femtosecond Oscillator. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.9.024001
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Shi, Liping, Iwan, Bianca, Ripault, Quentin, Andrade, José R. C., Han, Seunghwoi, Kim, Hyunwoong, Boutu, Willem, Franz, Dominik, Nicolas, Rana, Heidenblut, Torsten, Reinhardt, Carsten, Bastiaens, Bert, Nagy, Tamas, Babuskin, Ihar, Morgner, Uwe, Kim, Seung-Woo, Steinmeyer, Günter, Merdji, Hamed, and Kovačev, Milutin. Fri . "Resonant-Plasmon-Assisted Subwavelength Ablation by a Femtosecond Oscillator". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.9.024001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1424720.
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@article{osti_1424720,
title = {Resonant-Plasmon-Assisted Subwavelength Ablation by a Femtosecond Oscillator},
author = {Shi, Liping and Iwan, Bianca and Ripault, Quentin and Andrade, José R. C. and Han, Seunghwoi and Kim, Hyunwoong and Boutu, Willem and Franz, Dominik and Nicolas, Rana and Heidenblut, Torsten and Reinhardt, Carsten and Bastiaens, Bert and Nagy, Tamas and Babuskin, Ihar and Morgner, Uwe and Kim, Seung-Woo and Steinmeyer, Günter and Merdji, Hamed and Kovačev, Milutin},
abstractNote = {Here, we experimentally demonstrate the use of subwavelength optical nanoantennas to assist a direct nanoscale ablation using the ultralow fluence of a Ti:sapphire oscillator through the excitation of surface plasmon waves. The mechanism is attributed to nonthermal transient unbonding and electrostatic ablation, which is triggered by the surface plasmon-enhanced field electron emission and acceleration in vacuum. We show that the electron-driven ablation appears for both nanoscale metallic as well as dielectric materials. While the observed surface plasmon-enhanced local ablation may limit the applications of nanostructured surfaces in extreme nonlinear nanophotonics, it, nevertheless, also provides a method for nanomachining, manipulation, and modification of nanoscale materials. Lastly, collateral thermal damage to the antenna structure can be suitably avoided, and nonlinear conversion processes can be stabilized by a dielectric overcoating of the antenna.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevapplied.9.024001},
journal = {Physical Review Applied},
number = 2,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {2}
}
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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: SEM images of an Au nanoantenna with SiO2 dielectric coating in perspective view. (a) Pristine, (b) after 50 min of laser irradiation.
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