Time-resolved digital holography: A versatile tool for femtosecond laser-induced damage studies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7504, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Melninkaitis, Andrius ^a   Balčiunas, Tadas ^a   Vanagas, Andrius ^a   Sirutkaitis, Valdas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Ablation; Filamentation; Tilted pulse; Time resolved digital holography; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

ABLATION PROCESS; DAMAGE PROPAGATION; DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHY; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FILAMENTATION; OFF-AXIS; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGE; PULSE TIME; QUANTITATIVE AMPLITUDE; SINGLE-SHOT; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME-RESOLVED; TRANSPARENT MATERIAL; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; VERSATILE TOOLS;

ABLATION; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FUSED SILICA; LASER DAMAGE; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LASER RECORDING;

EID: 77949891075     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.836473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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