Industrial applications of ultrahigh precision short-pulse laser processing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5713, Issue , 2005, Pages 372-386

  Liu, Xinbing ^a  

^a Panasonic Corporation of North America   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond lasers; Laser processing; Parallel processing; Picosecond lasers; Ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; LASER PROCESSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

AMPLIFICATION; CRYSTALS; GLASS; LASER ABLATION; MATERIALS SCIENCE; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHOTONS; THIN FILMS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 23744489178     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.599113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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