Abstract:
Femtosecond laser pulses have the characteristics of ultra-short duration and ultra-high power. A series of nonlinear processes such as double photons effect, collision ionization and avalanche breakthrough will be induced, microexplosions will happen and micro-cavities will be formed at the focus in transparent materials when femtosecond laser is tightly focused into transparent materials. The micro-cavity structure induced by 25fs laser pulse in the interior of transparent materials is proposed. The energy threshold of the micro-cavity is analyzed. Three-dimensional micro-cavity dot-matrix was prepared with a three dimensional precision displacement instrument. The experiments indicate that the energy threshold for generating micro-cavity can be decreased by use of femtosecond pulse with shorter pulse width, the penetration depth of the micro-cavity can be improved by adjusting the power of femtosecond laser, the number of pulses and the beam focus, but the microcavity can not be formed if numerical aperture is too small because the tight focus can not be achieved.