Deciphering the driving mechanisms of incubation in ultrashort pulse laser ablation

This dataset accompanies the manuscript "Deciphering the driving mechanisms of incubation in ultrashort pulse laser ablation".It provides both experimental and simulation data that were used to analyse incubation effects in aluminium and stainless steel. The dataset includes: Surface profiles representing the raw topography data. Surface characterization with RMS slope, roughness and effective area. Evaluated results such as global absorption, specular reflectance, and extracted crater diameters (Excel/CSV files). Analysis scripts (For Lumerical) used to calculate absorption and specular reflectance from the surface data. Figure Data underlying the figures presented in the manuscript. Full raw FDTD project files (>100 GB) are not included due to file size limitations.However, with the provided surface profiles, refractive index (n,k) values, and monitor definitions, the simulations can be reconstructed and evaluated in Lumerical FDTD Solutions. Additional details on the dataset structure and usage are provided in the accompanying READ_ME files. This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under Grant No. 528706678 and by the project MEBIOSYS (Project No. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004634) funded through the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme, call Excellent Research.