Effects of aberrations in spatiotemporal focusing of ultrashort laser pulses

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 765-772

  Sun, Bangshan ^a   Salter, Patrick S ^a   Booth, Martin J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABERRATION CORRECTION; BIOLOGICAL STUDIES; LASER FABRICATION; PHASE ABERRATIONS; PHOTO ACTIVATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; SPATIOTEMPORAL FOCUSING; TEMPORAL FOCUSING;

FOCUSING;

LASER; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

LASERS; OPTICAL PROCESSES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84898078244     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.31.000765     Document Type: Conference Paper

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