Micromachining bulk glass by use of femtosecond laser pulses with nanojoule energy

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 93-95

  Schaffer, Chris B ^a   Brodeur, André ^a   García, José F ^a   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES;

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROMACHINING; MORPHOLOGY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0002498305     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000093     Document Type: Article

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