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A comprehensive model of processes involved in femtosecond laser inscription and the subsequent structural material modification is developed. Different time scales of the pulse-plasma dynamics and thermo-mechanical relaxation allow for separate numerical treatments of these processes, while linking them by an energy transfer equation. The model is illustrated and analysed on examples of inscription in fused silica and the results are used to explain previous experimental observations.
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Petrovic, J.S., Mezentsev, V., Schmitz, H. et al. Model of the femtosecond laser inscription by a single pulse. Opt Quant Electron 39, 939–946 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-007-9158-5
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