Femtosecond laser induced structural changes in fluorozirconate glass

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 574-583

  Gross, Simon ^a   Lancaster, David G ^b   Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^b   Monro, Tanya M ^b   Fuerbach, Alexander ^a   Withford, Michael J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGING BONDS; FLUOROZIRCONATE GLASS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; INFRARED TRANSPARENCY; PRISTINE GLASS; RAMAN MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

Q SWITCHED LASERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ZIRCONIUM;

GLASS;

EID: 84880410470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.000574     Document Type: Article

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