Fabrication of binary Fresnel lenses in PMMA by femtosecond laser surface ablation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 11597-11604

  Vázquez, Rebeca Martínez ^a   Eaton, Shane M ^a   Ramponi, Roberta ^a   Cerullo, Giulio ^a   Osellame, Roberto ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ESTERS; FOCUSING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

ABLATION DEPTH; FEATURE SIZES; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FOCAL LENGTHS; FRESNEL LENS; NUMERICAL APERTURE; PRECISE CONTROL; THEORETICAL VALUES; TIGHT FOCUSING;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 79958232993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011597     Document Type: Article

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