Distribution of the microcrystallites generated in borate glass irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses

Materials Letters

Volumn 61, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 2338-2342

  Guo, X D ^a,b   Yu, B K ^a   Chen, B ^a,b   Dai, Y ^a,b   Li, R X ^b   Qiu, J R ^b   Jiang, X W ^b   Zhu, C S ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Microcrystallites; Raman spectra

Indexed keywords

BORATE MINERALS; COOLING; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MICROCRYSTALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTHS; MICROCRYSTALLITES; MICROEXPLOSION MODELS;

GLASS;

EID: 34147178776     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2006.09.019     Document Type: Article

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