In-situ femtosecond laser pulse characterization and compression during micromachining

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 16061-16066

  Zhu, Xin ^a   Gunaratne, Tissa C ^a   Lozovoy, Vadim V ^a   Dantus, Marcos ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; MICROMACHINING; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SILICON;

MULTIPHOTON INTRAPULSE INTERFERENCE PHASE SCAN (MUPS); PHASE DISTORTION; SURFACE OF SILICON AND METALS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 36749088864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016061     Document Type: Article

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