Ultrashort laser pulse beam shaping

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 715-718

  Zhang, Shuyan ^a   Ren, Yuhang ^a   Lüpke, Gunter ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROMACHINING; PHOTOCATHODES;

LASER PULSE BEAM SHAPING;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0037330439     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.000715     Document Type: Article

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