Study of filamentary damage in synthesized silica induced by chirped femtosecond laser pulses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2437-2443

  Onda, Satoshi ^a   Watanabe, Wataru ^a   Yamada, Kazuhiro ^a   Itoh, Kazuyoshi ^a   Nishii, Junji ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUSED SILICA; IONIZATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MORPHOLOGY; PLASMA DENSITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CHIRPED FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; FEMTOSECOND LASER IRRADIATION; FILAMENTARY REFRACTIVE-INDEX CHANGE; FILAMENTARY TRACKS; SCATTERING DAMAGE; SYNTHESIZED SILICA;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 28044455028     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.002437     Document Type: Article

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