Plasma strings from ultraviolet laser filaments drive permanent structural modifications in fused silica

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2055-2057

  Papazoglou, D G ^a,b   Zergioti, I ^c   Tzortzakis, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILAMENT-INDUCED PLASMA; PLASMA STRING; SPECIFIC ELECTRON DENSITY;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; FIBERS; FUSED SILICA; LASERS;

PLASMAS;

EID: 40749118549     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.002055     Document Type: Article

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