Parallel direct laser writing in three dimensions with spatially dependent aberration correction

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21090-21099

  Jesacher, Alexander ^a   Booth, Martin J ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOGRAMS; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

ABERRATION CORRECTION; CHROMATIC ABERRATION; DESIGN PROCESS; DIFFRACTION ORDERS; DIRECT LASER WRITING; IMMERSION MEDIUM; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE; PARALLELISATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; THREE DIMENSIONS;

FUSED SILICA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 77957999122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021090     Document Type: Article

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