Enhanced energy coupling in femtosecond laser-metal interactions at high intensities

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 13113-13119

  Vorobyev, A Y ^a   Guo, Chunlei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LASER PULSES;

ENERGY COUPLING; LASER-METAL INTERACTIONS; THERMAL ENERGY;

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 33845735939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.013113     Document Type: Article

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