Femtosecond laser beam shaping with structured thin-film elements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4833, Issue , 2002, Pages 354-361

  Grunwald, R ^a   Kebbel, V ^b   Griebner, U ^a   Neumann, U ^a   Kummrow, A ^a   Nibbering, E T J ^a   Rini, M ^a   Piche M ^c   Rousseau, G ^c   Fortin, M ^c  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b BIAS BREMER INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE STRAHLTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beam shaping; Bessel beams; Localized wavepackets; Microoptics; Ultrashort pulse lasers; X pulses

Indexed keywords

LASERS; MICROOPTICS; MIRRORS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0038385439     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.473829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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