Experimental verification of femtosecond laser ablation schemes by time-resolved soft x-ray reflective imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 29329-29337

  Tomita, Takuro ^a   Yamamoto, Minoru ^a   Hasegawa, Noboru ^b   Terakawa, Kota ^c   Minami, Yasuo ^c   Nishikino, Masaharu ^b   Ishino, Masahiko ^b   Kaihori, Takeshi ^b   Ochi, Yoshihiro ^b   Kawachi, Tetsuya ^b   Yamagiwa, Mitsuru ^b   Suemoto, Tohru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; LASER ABLATION; LASERS; PLATINUM; PROBES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CRITICAL INFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; LASER INDUCED; PUMP-AND-PROBE; REFLECTIVITY CHANGES; SOFT X-RAY; SOFT X-RAY LASER; TIME-RESOLVED;

REFLECTION;

EID: 84872048159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029329     Document Type: Article

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