On femtosecond micromachining of HPHT single-crystal diamond with direct laser writing using tight focusing

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 13122-13135

  Zalloum, Othman H Y ^a   Parrish, Matthew ^a   Terekhov, Alexander ^a   Hofmeister, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS IN SOLIDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHETIC DIAMONDS; THERMAL EXPANSION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABLATED MATERIALS; AMPLIFIED FEMTOSECOND PULSE; CONTROLLED MODIFICATION; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DIRECT LASER WRITING; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; FEMTOSECOND MICROMACHINING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDRODYNAMIC EXPANSION; KEY FACTORS; LOW PULSE ENERGY; NANO DIAMOND; PRECISE MACHINING; PULSE ENERGIES; SEM; SINGLE CRYSTAL DIAMOND; SIZE SCALE; SYNTHETIC SINGLE CRYSTALS; THERMAL LOSS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TIGHT FOCUSING;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77953578600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013122     Document Type: Article

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