High-aspect ratio nanochannel formation by single femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16840-16848

  Herbstman, Jeffrey F ^a   Hunt, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; PULSED LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BEAM CROSS SECTION; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; FEMTOSECOND PULSED LASER; FILAMENTATION; HIGH-ASPECT RATIO; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LASER FOCUS; MICRO-SCALES; NANO CHANNELS; PRIMARY SOURCES; PROPAGATION AXIS; RAYLEIGH RANGE; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; SPOT SIZES;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PULSE RATE;

LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PULSE;

EID: 77955636778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016840     Document Type: Article

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