Nanogratings and nanoholes fabricated by direct femtosecond laser writing in chalcogenide glasses

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6885-6890

  Zhang, Qiming ^a,b   Lin, Han ^a   Jia, Baohua ^a   Xu, Lei ^b   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; GLASS LASERS; IRRADIATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CHALCOGENIDE GLASS; DIRECT LASER WRITING; FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; MULTI-PULSE IRRADIATION; NANO-GRATINGS; NANOHOLES; SINGLE-BEAM; SINGLE-PULSE IRRADIATION; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

ARSENIC; GLASS; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; SULFUR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; ARSENIC; GLASS; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SULFUR;

EID: 77950273247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006885     Document Type: Article

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