Temporal femtosecond pulse tailoring for nanoscale laser processing of wide-bandgap materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7600, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wollenhaupt, Matthias ^a   Englert, Lars ^a   Horn, Alexander ^a   Baumert, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulse shaping; Material processing; Nanostructuring

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FLOW; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FEMTOSECOND PULSE SHAPING; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY; LASER NANO-STRUCTURING; MATERIAL PROCESSING; MODULATION PARAMETERS; NANO-STRUCTURING; NANOSCALE LASERS; PHOTON ENERGY; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE ENVELOPES; SHAPED PULSE; STRUCTURE PARAMETER; SURFACE MATERIALS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-REVERSED; WIDE BANDGAP MATERIALS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ENERGY GAP; FUSED SILICA; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICA; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77951615742     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.840511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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