Surface damage of extreme-ultraviolet gratings exposed to high-energy 20-fs laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4720-4724

  Ceccherini, Paolo ^a   Pelizzo, Maria G ^a   Villoresi, Paolo ^a   Silvestri, Sandro De ^b   Nisoli, Mauro ^b   Stagira, Salvatore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia Milan   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; GOLD; LASER ABLATION; LASER DAMAGE; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL COATINGS; PLATINUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DAMAGE FLUENCES;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0032606335     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004720     Document Type: Article

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