Morphological investigation at the front and rear surfaces of fused silica processed with femtosecond laser pulses in air

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 1244-1249

  Wu, Zhaoxin ^a   Jiang, Hongbing ^a   Zhang, Zhaohui ^a   Sun, Quan ^a   Yang, Hong ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; MICROMACHINING; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

CAVITIES; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; SUBMICROMETER BUBBLES;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 0038803311     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.001244     Document Type: Article

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