Microstructuring transparent materials by use of nondiffracting ultrashort pulse beams generated by diffractive optics

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2562-2568

  Amako, Jun ^a   Sawaki, Daisuke ^a   Fujii, Eiichi ^a  

^a SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GLASS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

AXICON; CHROMATIC ABERRATIONS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0346392276     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.002562     Document Type: Article

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