Application of self-focusing of ps laser pulses for three-dimensional microstructuring of transparent materials

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1442-1444

  Ashkenasi, D ^a   Varel, H ^a   Rosenfeld, A ^a   Henz, S ^a   Herrmann, J ^a   Cambell, E E B ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; KERR ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE TREATMENT; TRANSPARENCY;

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; KERR COEFFICIENT; LASER FLUENCES; THREE WAVE MIXING; TRANSPARENT MATERIALS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032026862     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120606     Document Type: Article

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