Arbitrary micropatterning method in femtosecond laser microprocessing using diffractive optical elements

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1908-1915

  Kuroiwa, Yutaka ^a   Takeshima, Nobuhito ^a   Narita, Yoshihiro ^a   Tanaka, Shuhei ^a   Hirao, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a New Glass Forum   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; LASER PULSES; LENSES; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL GLASS; SILICA;

BINARY OPTICS; GLASS SURFACES; LASER BEAM SHAPING;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 2942702286     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001908     Document Type: Article

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