Spatio-temporally focused femtosecond laser pulses for nonreciprocal writing in optically transparent materials

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24673-24678

  Vitek, Dawn N ^a   Block, Erica ^a   Bellouard, Yves ^b   Adams, Daniel E ^c   Backus, Sterling ^d   Kleinfeld, David ^e   Durfee, Charles G ^a   Squier, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Kapteyn Murnane Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ABLATION PATTERNS; FOCAL POSITIONS; FOCUSED FEMTOSECOND LASERS; MATERIAL MODIFICATIONS; NONRECIPROCAL; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT MATERIAL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PRECISE CONTROL; PULSE-FRONT TILT; TEMPORAL FOCUSING;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 78649698412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024673     Document Type: Article

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