Abstract

Ultrafast dynamics in dielectric materials has now been investigated for three decades! The studies have continuously been motivated both by the quest to understand the material dynamics in still greater detail and by the various applications that were developed concurrently, e.g. for micro- and nanostructuring or local modification of the refractive index. The combination of detailed experimental studies and different modelling approaches has led to a general picture of the qualitative phenomena [1], and in some cases, models have even demonstrated a reasonable quantitative agreement with experiments [2,3].

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