Adaptive modeling of the femtosecond inscription in silica

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6107, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mezentsev, Vladimir ^a   Petrovic, Jovana ^a   Dreher, Jürgen ^b   Grauer, Rainer ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Femtosecond inscription; Self focusing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; SILICA;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; FEMTOSECOND INSCRIPTION; SELF-FOCUSING; TEMPORAL SCALES;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33646004619     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.647303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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