Multilevel phase-type diffractive lenses in silica glass induced by filamentation of femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1846-1848

  Yamada, Kazuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Wataru ^a   Li, Yudong ^a   Itoh, Kazuyoshi ^a   Nishii, Junji ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE LENS; PHASE RETARDATION; PHASE TRANSMISSION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIREFRINGENCE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 4043055697     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.001846     Document Type: Article

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