Extremely-short laser illumination is an intriguing instrument for engineering materials by gentle. It’s normally employed at or above the ablation threshold. Sensible purposes thereby revenue from tailoring floor properties, for example, by structural modifications to the floor layer of an irradiated goal. A target-orientated restructuring of surfaces on the nanoscale is way much less explored. Specifically, an intrinsic depth variation throughout a laser spot has not but been thought-about or employed. We picture the surprising nanoscale clusters fashioned on the Cu(111) floor upon illumination of a Cu pattern far beneath its ablation threshold by femtosecond laser gentle, using a specially-developed multi-scale strategy. We unravel that these clusters fluctuate considerably in dimension and form throughout the micrometre-scale laser spot. Three qualitatively completely different areas with sharp modifications between the areas spotlight the significance of the native fluence for particular kinds of nanoclusters. Extremely-short laser illumination represents a non-trivial interaction between photo-thermal and electron-induced mechanisms, transport of warmth and electrons, and materials properties, which we talk about for figuring out the underlying ideas. Our research demonstrates {that a} multitude of as but unconsidered processes are concerned within the tailoring of nanoscale materials by ultra-short laser gentle.