Near-threshold femtosecond laser fabrication of one-dimensional subwavelength nanogratings on a graphite surface

Abstract

Superimposed one-dimensional quasiperiodic gratings with multiple periods Λ≈110–800 nm well below or comparable to the pump laser wavelength of 744 nm, and ridge orientations perpendicular to the linear polarization of infrared femtosecond laser pulses, were fabricated after multiple near-threshold laser shots on a planar surface of quasimonocrystalline graphite in ambient air