Plasma formation and structural modification below the visible ablation threshold in fused silica upon femtosecond laser irradiation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Siegel, J ^a   Puerto, D ^a   Gawelda, W ^a   Bachelier, G ^a,c   Solis, J ^a   Ehrentraut, L ^b   Bonse, J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PLASMA FORMATION; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATION; TIME RESOLVED MICROSCOPY; WHITE LIGHT INTERFEROMETRY;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 34548227006     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2766848     Document Type: Article

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