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Multiphoton laser-induced confined chemical changes in polymer films

  • Deepak L.N. Kallepalli
  • , Alan T.K. Godfrey
  • , Jaspreet Walia
  • , Fabio Variola
  • , André Staudte
  • , Chunmei Zhang
  • , Zygmunt J. Jakubek
  • , P. B. Corkum*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Ottawa
  • National Research Council of Canada

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Abstract

We report ultrafast-laser-induced photochemical, structural, and morphological changes in a polyimide film irradiated at the polymer-glass interface in back-incident geometry. Back-illumination creates locally hot material at the interface leading to a confined photochemical change at the interface and a morphological change through a blister formation. The laser-induced photochemical changes in polyimide resulted in new absorption and luminescence properties in the visible region. The laser-treated polyimide exhibited photoluminescence anisotropy resulting from formation of ordered polymer upon irradiation by linearly polarized ultrashort laser pulses. Confocal fluorescence microscopy resulted in similar observations to the bulk. Reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy together indicated confinement of laser-induced chemical changes at the interface.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11267-11279
Number of pages13
JournalOptics Express
Volume28
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Apr 2020
Externally publishedYes

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