Micromachining of bulk glass with bursts of femtosecond laser pulses at variable repetition rates

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5279-5284

  Gattass, Rafael R ^a   Cerami, Loren R ^a   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER OPTICS; LASER PULSES; MICROMACHINING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; TRANSPARENCY;

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; HEAT ACCUMULATION; INTEGRATED OPTICAL COMPONENTS; LASER MICROMACHINING;

GLASS;

EID: 33745171129     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005279     Document Type: Article

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