Temporal pulse manipulation and consequences for ultrafast laser processing of materials

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Stoian, Razvan ^a,d   Mermillod Blondin, Alexandre ^a,d   Winkler, Sebastian W ^a,e   Rosenfeld, Arkadi ^a   Hertel, Ingolf V ^a,f   Spyridaki, Maria ^b,g   Koudoumas, Emmanuel ^b,h   Tzanetakis, Panos ^b,g   Fotakis, Costas ^b,g   Burakov, Igor M ^c   Bulgakova, Nadezhda M ^c  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c KUTATELADZE INSTITUTE OF THERMOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^h TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adaptive optimization; Material processing; Pulse shaping; Ultrafast laser ablation

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRONS; IONS; IRRADIATION; LASER ABLATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHONONS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION; MATERIAL PROCESSING; PULSE SHAPING; ULTRAFAST LASER ABLATION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 24044495541     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1915467     Document Type: Article

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