Three-dimensional micromachining inside transparent materials using femtosecond laser pulses: New applications

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, CLEO/QELS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bovatsek, Jim ^a   Arai, Alan ^a   Schaffer, Chris B ^b  

^a IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; FOCUSED FEMTOSECOND PULSES; GLASS WELDING; HEAT SOURCES; HIGH REPETITION RATES; INTERNAL SURFACES; NEW APPLICATIONS; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; TRANSPARENT MATERIALS; WELD LINES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTRON OPTICS; LASERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WELDING;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 55649100135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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