Birefringent elements based on femtosecond laser-induced nanogratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7589, Issue , 2010, Pages

  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 UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser materials processing; Nanogratings

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENT ELEMENTS; FABRICATION PARAMETERS; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING; FORMATION PROCESS; NANO-GRATINGS; NANOGRATING; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; SELF-ORGANIZED NANOSTRUCTURES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TRANSPARENT MATERIAL;

BIREFRINGENCE; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SILICA; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 77951693254     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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