Fabrication of fresnel zone plate embedded in silica glass by femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 978-983

  Watanabe, Wataru ^a   Kuroda, Daisuke ^a   Itoh, Kazuyoshi ^a   Nishii, Junji ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; FOCUSING; FUSED SILICA; HELIUM; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASER BEAMS; LASER DAMAGE; LENSES; NEON; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLATE METAL; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FRESNEL ZONE; INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICES; LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0037875147     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000978     Document Type: Article

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