Physical mechanisms of fused silica restructuring and densification after femtosecond laser excitation [Invited]

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 625-632

  Papazoglou, D G ^a,b   Tzortzakis, S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HOLOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE; LATTICE STATE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PHYSICAL MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LASER EXCITATION; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84859082254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000625     Document Type: Article

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