A simple way to fabricate close-packed high numerical aperture microlens arrays

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1336-1339

  Meng, Xiangwei ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Yang, Qing ^a   Bian, Hao ^a   Liu, Hewei ^a   Qu, Pubo ^a   Hu, Yang ^a   Si, Jinhai ^a   Hou, Xun ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; high numerical aperture; microlens array; silica glass

Indexed keywords

CLOSE-PACKED; FILL FACTOR; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; WET CHEMICALS;

CHEMICAL DETECTION; FUSED SILICA; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MICROOPTICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WET ETCHING;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 84880525951     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2264801     Document Type: Article

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