(2022) Eisfeld, Eugen; Förster, Daniel; Klein, Dominic; Roth, Johannes
For our model material aluminum, the influence of laser pulse duration in the range between 0.5 and 16 ps on the ablation depth is investigated in a computational study with a hybrid approach, combining molecular dynamics with the well known two-temperature model. A simple, yet expedient extension is proposed to account for the delayed thermalization as well as ballistic transport of the excited electrons. Comparing the simulated ablation depths to a series of our own experiments, the extension is found to considerably increase the predictive power of the model.
