Tuning the structural properties of femtosecond-laser-induced nanogratings

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Ramirez, Lourdes Patricia R ^a   Heinrich, Matthias ^a   Richter, Sören ^a   Dreisow, Felix ^a   Keil, Robert ^a   Korovin, Alexander V ^b   Peschel, Ulf ^b   Nolte, Stefan ^a,c   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENT ELEMENTS; FABRICATION PARAMETERS; FEMTOSECONDS; FORMATION PROCESS; LASER INDUCED; LASER PROCESSING; NANO-GRATINGS; PARAMETER RANGE; SELF-ORGANIZED NANOSTRUCTURES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TRANSPARENT MATERIAL;

BIREFRINGENCE; SILICA;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 77950442644     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-010-5684-2     Document Type: Article

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