Laser micromachining of transparent glass using ultrafast bessel beams

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7386, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zambon, Véronique ^a   McCarthy, Nathalie ^a   Piché, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bessel beams; Laser processing; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

BESSEL BEAM; BESSEL BEAMS; CHEMICAL ETCHING; CIRCULAR SYMMETRY; CONICAL LENS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; GLASS SAMPLES; HF SOLUTIONS; LASER MICRO-MACHINING; LASER PROCESSING; LONG DISTANCES; LOW LOSS; MICRO HOLES; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; OPTICAL BEAMS; TRANSPARENT GLASS; TRANSVERSE INTENSITY PROFILES; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FABRICATION; FOCUSING; GLASS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SILICA; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 70449583490     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.839520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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