Multi-focus two-photon polymerization technique based on individually controlled phase modulation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 17193-17200

  Obata, Kotaro ^a   Koch, Jürgen ^a   Hinze, Ulf ^a   Chichkov, Boris N ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS;

3D STRUCTURES; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAMS; FAST SWITCHING; LASER INTENSITIES; MODULATION TECHNIQUES; MULTI-FOCUS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; TWO PHOTON POLYMERIZATION;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTON; POLYMERIZATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOLOGRAPHY; LASERS; PHOTONS; POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 77955593070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017193     Document Type: Article

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