Optical damage threshold and energy deposition in the embedded nanostructures

摘要

Results of energy deposition measurement in interaction between an ultra-short laser pulse and nanostructured target are described. As a target we used carbon nanotubes and multilayer graphene deposited on a sapphire wafer surface and embedded in a layer of protein. A 25 fs, p-polarised pulses from a 1 kHz-Ti;sapphire laser of energy up to 3 mJ were focused to give intensity up to 2×10~(16) W/cm~2 on a target positioned within an integrating sphere. The absorption measured showed a level in excess of 80 %, increasing with the intensity. The results suggest that the host material (lysozyme) is responsible for the breakdown while the embedded material contributes dominantly to the absorption.