Laser-induced structural modification, its mechanisms, and applications in glassy optical materials

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 921-935

  Musgraves, J David ^a   Richardson, Kathleen ^a   Jain, Himanshu ^b  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; FEMTOSECONDS; GLASSY MATERIALS; LASER INDUCED; MATERIAL MODIFICATIONS; MATERIALS AND PROCESS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; GLASS;

MATERIALS SCIENCE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

EID: 84862212315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000921     Document Type: Article

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