Effect of refractive index mismatch on multi-photon direct laser writing

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 25030-25040

  Williams, Henry E ^a   Luo, Zhenyue ^a   Kuebler, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LINKABLE; DIRECT LASER WRITING; FEATURE SIZES; FOCAL DEPTH; INCIDENT LASER; INCIDENT POWER; MULTIPHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; VECTORIAL DIFFRACTION;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84868232737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025030     Document Type: Article

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