Applications of a microlens array and a photomask to the laser microfabrication of a periodic photopolymer rod array

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 34, 2007, Pages 8264-8267

  Matsuo, Shigeki ^a   Miyamoto, Takashi ^a   Tomita, Takuro ^a   Hashimoto, Shuichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER OPTICS; PHOTOMASKS; PHOTOPOLYMERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LASER MICROFABRICATION; MICROLENS ARRAY (MLA);

MICROLENSES;

LASERS; LENSES; MASKING; PHOTOPOLYMERS;

EID: 39049146201     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.008264     Document Type: Article

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