Nanogratings in fused silica: Formation, control, and applications

Journal of Laser Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Richter, Sören ^a   Heinrich, Matthias ^a   Döring, Sven ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,c   Nolte, Stefan ^a,c   Peschel, Ulf ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

fused silica; laser materials processing; nanogratings; self trapped excitions

Indexed keywords

FORM BIREFRINGENCE; FORMATION PROCESS; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING; NANO-GRATINGS; PERIODIC SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURE; PHASE ELEMENT; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SELF ORGANIZED STRUCTURES; SELF TRAPPED EXCITIONS; SELF TRAPPED EXCITONS; TEMPERATURE STABILITY; THERMALLY STABLE; TIME-SCALES;

FUSED SILICA; LASER APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84864138242     PISSN: 1042346X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2351/1.4718561     Document Type: Article

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