Complete characterization of damage threshold in titanium doped sapphire crystals with nanosecond, picosecond and femtosecond laser pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5991, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Canova, F ^a   Chambaret, J P ^a   Mourou, G ^a   Sentis, M ^b   Uteza, O ^b   Delaporte, P ^b   Itina, T ^b   Natoli, J Y ^c   Commandre, M ^c   Amra, C ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Deterministic; Femtosecond; Nanosecond; Picosecond; Sapphire; Threshold; Titanium

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC; FEMTOSECOND; NANOSECOND; PICOSECOND; THRESHOLD;

AMPLIFICATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER PULSES; POLISHING; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 33644597574     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.638769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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