Optical and ultrasonic monitoring of femtosecond laser filamentation in fused silica

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 255, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9721-9723

  Mizeikis, Vygantas ^a,b   Juodkazis, Saulius ^a   Balčiunas, Tadas ^c   Kudryashov, Sergey I ^d   Zvorykin, Vladimir D ^d   Ionin, Andrei A ^d   Misawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Femtosecond filaments; Silica glass

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL LATTICES; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

ACOUSTIC MONITORING; FEMTOSECOND FILAMENTS; FEMTOSECOND LASER FILAMENTATION; FOCUSED FEMTOSECOND LASERS; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; INVERSE BREMSSTRAHLUNGS; ULTRASONIC MONITORING; ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 70349568726     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.04.057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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