Fabrication of beam shapers in the bulk of fused silica by femtosecond laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 4571-4574

  Wang, Xi ^a   Guo, Hengchang ^a   Yang, Hong ^a   Jiang, Hongbing ^a   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM;

BEAM SHAPERS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; PHASE ELEMENTS; TRANSPARENT MATERIALS;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 4344651111     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004571     Document Type: Article

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