Application of Bessel beams for ultrafast laser volume structuring of non transparent media

Physics Procedia

Volumn 5, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 533-540

  Alexeev, I ^a   Leitz, K H ^a   Otto, A ^a   Schmidt, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bessel laser beams; Micro structuring; Ultrafast material processing

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; METAL FORMING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LASER MATERIAL PROCESSING; LASER STRUCTURING; LASER-PULSE ENERGY; MATERIAL PROCESSING; MICRO STRUCTURING; PRECISE POSITIONING; TIGHTLY FOCUSED LASER BEAM; VOLUME STRUCTURING;

LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING;

EID: 79551659609     PISSN: 18753884     EISSN: 18753892     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2010.08.177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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