MicroChannel fabrication in PMMA based on localized heating by nanojoule high repetition rate femtosecond pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 5939-5946

  Day, Daniel ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FABRICATION; LASER PULSES; SUBSTRATES;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; MICROCHANNEL FABRICATION; MICROCHANNELS;

POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

EID: 24044466475     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005939     Document Type: Article

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