Optical-vortex laser ablation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2144-2151

  Hamazaki, Junichi ^a   Morita, Ryuji ^a   Chujo, Keisuke ^b   Kobayashi, Yusuke ^b   Tanda, Satoshi ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; TANTALUM;

ABLATION THRESHOLDS; ANNULAR BEAMS; OPTICAL VORTICES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 76149122483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002144     Document Type: Article

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