Orientation-controllable self-organized microgratings induced in the bulk SrTiO3 crystal by a single femtosecond laser beam

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14524-14529

  Song, Juan ^a,b   Wang, Xinshun ^a,b   Hu, Xiao ^a,b   Xu, Jian ^a,b   Liao, Yang ^a,b   Sun, Haiyi ^a   Qiu, Jianrong ^c   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER BEAMS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

LASER PROPAGATION AXIS; MICROGRATINGS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SCANNING VELOCITY;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 35948931072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014524     Document Type: Article

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