Femtosecond laser waveguide micromachining of PMMA films with azoaromatic chromophores

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 200-206

  Mendonca, C R ^a,b   Cerami, L R ^a   Shih, T ^a   Tilghman, R W ^a   Baldacchini, T ^a   Mazur, E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHROMOPHORES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); MICROMACHINING; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AZOCHROMOPHORES; NONLINEAR AZOAROMATIC CHROMOPHORES;

POLYMER FILMS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; AZO COMPOUND; FLUORESCENT DYE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS;

AZO COMPOUNDS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROCHEMISTRY; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE;

EID: 38049133905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000200     Document Type: Article

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