TY - JOUR A1 - Beke, S. A1 - Sugioka, K. A1 - Midorikawa, K. A1 - Bonse, Jörn T1 - Near-IR femtosecond and VUV nanosecond laser processing of TeO2 crystals in air JF - Proceedings / SPIE : P N2 - Near-IR femtosecond ( τ = 150 fs, λ = 775 nm, repetition rate 1 kHz) and VUV nanosecond (τ = 20 ns, λ = 157 nm, repetition rate 1 to 5 Hz) laser pulse ablation of single-crystalline TeO2 (c-TeO2, grown by the balance controlled Czochalski growth method) surfaces was performed in air using the direct focusing technique. The multi-method characterization using optical microscopy, atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy revealed the surface morphology of the ablated craters. This allowed us to characterize precisely the lateral and vertical dimensions of the laser-ablated craters for different laser pulse energies and pulse numbers at each spot. Based on the obtained information, we quantitatively determined the ablation threshold fluence for the fs laser irradiation when different pulse numbers were applied to the same spot by using two independent extrapolation techniques. We found that in case of NIR femtosecond laser pulse irradiation, the ablation threshold significantly depends on the number of laser pulses applied to the same spot indicating that incubation effects play an important role in this material. In case of VUV ns laser pulses, the ablation rate is significantly higher due to the high photon energy and the predominantly linear absorption in the material. These results are discussed on the basis of recent models of the interaction of laser pulses with dielectrics. PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.845074 SN - 0277-786X SN - 0038-7355 SN - 0361-0748 VL - 7584 SP - 758415-1 - 758415-10 PB - Soc. CY - Redondo Beach, Calif. [u.a.] AN - OPUS4-20912 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -