Full-vectorial modeling of femtosecond pulses for laser inscription of photonic structures

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1208-1217

  Schmitz, Holger ^a   Mezentsev, Vladimir ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; DRUDE MODELS; FEMTOSECOND (FS) LASER; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; FS LASER PULSE; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; MULTI-PHOTON ABSORPTION; MULTISCALES; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATIONS; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; REFRACTIVE-INDEX MODIFICATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84861832711     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.001208     Document Type: Article

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