Filamentation and surface damage in fused silica with single-mode and multi-mode pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5991, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bercegol, Hervé ^a   Lamaignére, Laurent ^a   Cavaro, Vincent ^a   Loiseau, Marc ^a  

^a CEA CESTA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; VACUUM;

FILAMENTATION; MULTI-MODE PULSES; SINGLE-MODE PULSES; SURFACE DAMAGE;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 33644587261     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.638480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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