Spatial pattern of microchannel formation in fused silica irradiated by nanosecond ultraviolet pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 27, 1999, Pages 5785-5788

  Wright, Ewan M ^a   Mansuripur, Masud ^a   Liberman, Vladimir ^b   Bates, Keith ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

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EID: 0041731327     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005785     Document Type: Article

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