Dynamics of plasma formation and permanent structural transformation in ZBLAN excited by tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-132

  Cho, Sung Hak ^a,c   Chang, Won Seok ^a   Kim, Kwang Ryul ^b   Hong, Jong Wook ^c  

^a Korea Institute of Machine and Materials   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Fluoride glass; Plasma formation; Refractive index modification; Time resolved dynamics

Indexed keywords

CORUNDUM; DYNAMICS; FORMING; GLASS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; OPTICAL GLASS; PLASMAS; TITANIUM; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASER; FLUORIDE GLASS; PLASMA FORMATION; REFRACTIVE-INDEX MODIFICATION; TIME-RESOLVED DYNAMICS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 56549123833     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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