Two-photon polymerization with variable repetition rate bursts of femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 29890-29899

  Baldacchini, Tommaso ^a   Snider, Scott ^a   Zadoyan, Ruben ^a  

^a NEWPORT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION GENERATORS; POLYMERIZATION; RESINS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ACOUSTO-OPTIC MODULATOR; BURST REPETITION RATE; HEAT ACCUMULATION; LASER FLUENCES; PHOTOSENSITIVE RESINS; REPETITION RATE; TWO PHOTON; TWO PHOTON POLYMERIZATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84872031256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029890     Document Type: Article

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