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Ultrashort laser pulses are cataloged for those whose durations are in the range of femtoseconds (1 fs = 10−15 s) to a few picoseconds (1 ps = 10−12 s), depending on the interacted materials. Comparing with conventional laser pulses that have a duration of nanoseconds (1 ns = 10−9 s) or longer, these laser pulses have two exceptional features: (1) ultrashort pulse duration and (2) extremely high laser power, leading to a wide spectrum of application in the fields of chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, and engineering. For example, ultrashort-pulsed lasers have been used to observe chemical bond formation and breaking [1, 2], generate high-density plasma [3], image and manipulate biological systems [4], deliver foreign gene into cells in vitro [5], synthesize metal and semiconductor nanoparticles [6], etc.
Over the past two decades, many efforts have been stimulated to explore micro-/nanoprocessing of solid thin films by ultrashort-pulsed lasers. The ultrafast laser...
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Gan, Y., Chen, JK. (2014). Atomic-Level Hybrid Modeling of Thermomechanical Stress Wave in Metal Thin Films Induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses. In: Hetnarski, R.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2739-7_8
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