Laser induced nanogratings beyond fused silica - periodic nanostructures in borosilicate glasses and ULETM

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1161-1166

  Richter, Sören ^a   Miese, Christopher ^b   Döring, Sven ^a   Zimmermann, Felix ^a   Withford, Michael J ^b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,c   Nolte, tefan ^a,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOROFLOAT; LASER INDUCED; NANO-GRATINGS; PERIODIC NANOSTRUCTURE; POLARIZATION CONTRAST; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PULSE DURATIONS;

BOROSILICATE GLASS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 84884197830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.001161     Document Type: Article

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