Formation of periodic microstructures on multilayer dielectric gratings prior to total ablation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10921-10929

  Kosc, T Z ^a   Kozlov, A A ^a   Schmid, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; IRRADIATION; LASER PULSES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MULTILAYERS;

DAMAGE MORPHOLOGY; MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC GRATINGS (MLD); PULSE LENGTH; RIPPLE FORMATION;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33750706891     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010921     Document Type: Article

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