Correlation between oxygen-deficient center formation and volume compaction in synthetic SiO2 glass upon ArF or F2 excimer-laser irradiation

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2332-2336

  Ikuta, Yoshiaki ^a   Kajihara, Koichi ^a   Hirano, Masahiro ^a   Hosono, Hideo ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCIMER LASERS; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROGEN; IRRADIATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

LASER IRRADIATION; LASER-INDUCED VOLUME COMPACTION; OXYGEN-DEFICIENT CENTER FORMATION;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 2342522690     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002332     Document Type: Article

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