Film-substrate hydrodynamic interaction initiated by femtosecond laser irradiation

Action of an ultrashort single laser pulse onto a thin metal film is considered. Disruption of a plane freestanding film quickly heated by a laser is the simplest model of the laser thermomechanical spallation. There is a sharp spallation (ablation) threshold Fabl dividing dynamics of a freestanding film to two regimes: below or above the threshold Fabl. Problem of significant importance is: how this picture will change when a film is deposited onto a substrate? We have solved this problem. It is found that there are two thresholds Fdelam < F < Fabl and the four regimes of motion relative to the case of a freestanding film. For the range of fluences 0 < F < Fdelam a film oscillates remaining on a substrate. Oscillations decay in time due to irradiation of the sonic waves into substrate. For Fdelam < F < Fabl + ΔF the film delaminates from the substrate because negative pressure (tensile stress) propagating from the vacuum boundary with the rarefaction acoustic wave achieves the film-substrate contact boun...