Femtosecond-laser generation of self-organized bubble patterns in fused silica

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6807-6821

  Bellouard, Yves ^a   Hongler, Max Olivier ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SILICA;

CONTINUOUSLY SCANNING; CUMULATIVE ENERGY; ENERGY EXCHANGES; FEMTOSECOND LASER BEAMS; FEMTOSECONDS; HIGH INTENSITY PULSE; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; HIGH-SPEED WRITING; LASER GENERATION; SCANNING RATE; SELF-ORGANIZED; THREE-DIMENSIONAL BUBBLES;

FUSED SILICA;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROBUBBLE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 79953216065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006807     Document Type: Article

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