Numerical aperture dependence of damage and supercontinuum generation from femtosecond laser pulses in bulk fused silica

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2317-2322

  Ashcom, Jonathan B ^a,b   Gattass, Rafael R ^a   Schaffer, Chris B ^a,c   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Materials Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FUSED SILICA; LASER DAMAGE; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

BULK DAMAGE; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; THRESHOLD ENERGY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33846000665     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.002317     Document Type: Article

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