Observation of pressure wave generated by focusing a femtosecond laser pulse inside a glass

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5674-5686

  Sakakura, M ^a   Terazima, M ^b   Shimotsuma, Y ^b   Miura, K ^b   Hirao, K ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; GLASS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

FOCAL REGIONS; PRESSURE WAVES; SODA-LIME;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34247863956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005674     Document Type: Article

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