Title : 
Femtosecond laser ablation from silicon and ripples formation: Evolution of surface excitation
         
        
            Author : 
Bounhalli, Mourad ; Muth, Marco ; Varlamova, Olga ; Reif, Juergen
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Brandenburg. Tech. Univ. BTU Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The authors report on pump-probe experiments to study the time evolution of surface excitation during femtosecond laser ablation from silicon and its influence on self-organized ripples formation.
         
        
            Keywords : 
elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; laser ablation; optical pumping; silicon; Si; femtosecond laser ablation; pump-probe; self-organized ripples formation; silicon; surface excitation;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Munich
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0533-5
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
Pending
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943331