1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 2State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640 3Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444
Abstract：We report the observation of bubble generation and migration in a germanate glass during irradiation by a femtosecond laser of high repetition rate. Bubbles are formed around the focal area of the laser beam, and their movement indicates the presence of thermal gravity convection in the glass melt, which is beyond the existing theoretical model about temperature field of focal area. Inside the bubbles, oxygen molecules are observed by the confocal Raman micro-spectroscopy. The generation of molecular oxygen and bubbles is explained in terms of the spatial separation of Ge and O ions and micro-explosion inside the glass melt.
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