Translational characteristics in the ablation of chlorobenzene van der Waals solids at 248 nm

Abstract

Time-of-flight quadrupole mass spectrometry was employed for the characterization of the desorbate translational distributions in the ablation of condensed C₆H₅Cl films with KrF excimer laser nanosecond and subpicosecond pulses. In the nanosecond case, the desorbate most probable velocities are found to exhibit distinctly different dependences on the laser fluence in the ablative and the sub-ablative regimes. Most importantly, the change from the one regime to the other is found to result in a sharp increase in their value. This abrupt change provides strong evidence for the existence of a well-defined fluence threshold for UV ablation of van der Waals films to occur. The implications of the results for material ejection mechanisms and post-desorption collisional dynamics in the sub-ablative and ablative ranges are discussed. Examination of the corresponding process with 500 fs pulses indicates that the desorbate translational distributions are not very dependent on the laser pulse width.

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