Ultrafast laser pulses to detect and generate fast thermomechanical transients in matter

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-32

  Giannetti, Claudio ^a   Banfi, Francesco ^a   Nardi, Damiano ^a,b   Ferrini, Gabriele ^a   Parmigiani, Fulvio ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic devices; Nanotechnology; Surface acoustic waves; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; FEMTOSECOND TIME RESOLUTION; MASS SENSOR; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; MODEL SYSTEM; NANO SCALE; PHONONIC CRYSTAL; PICOSECOND ACOUSTICS; PSEUDO-SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; PUMP-PROBE; SHAPE VARIATIONS; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY RANGE; THERMO-MECHANICAL; THERMOMECHANICAL PROBLEMS; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST LASER PULSE; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; WAVE-GUIDING;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTOELECTRIC EFFECTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; NANOSTRUCTURES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACES; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT; TRANSIENTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84885886205     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2009.2025050     Document Type: Article

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