Colloidal particle lens arrays-assisted nanopatterning by harmonics of a femtosecond laser

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 21485-21490

  Bityurin, N ^a   Afanasiev, A ^a   Bredikhin, V ^a   Alexandrov, A ^a   Agareva, N ^a   Pikulin, A ^a   Ilyakov, I ^a   Shishkin, B ^a   Akhmedzhanov, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMPACT IONIZATION; PHOTOIONIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; NANO-STRUCTURING; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; SECOND HARMONICS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84884583728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.021485     Document Type: Article

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