Large enhancement of femtosecond laser micromachining speed in dye-doped hydrogel polymers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21914-21921

  Ding, Li ^a   Jani, Dharmendra ^b   Linhardt, Jeffrey ^b   Künzler, Jay F ^b   Pawar, Siddhesh ^c   Labenski, Glen ^c   Smith, Thomas ^c   Knox, Wayne H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b BAUSCH AND LOMB   (United States)

^c ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; HYDROGELS; MICROMACHINING; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COUMARIN DYES; DYE-DOPED; DYE-DOPED POLYMER; FEMTOSECOND LASER MICROMACHINING; HYDROGEL POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; WRITING SPEED;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 58149121146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021914     Document Type: Article

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