Tailored surface birefringence by femtosecond laser assisted wet etching

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1428-1437

  Drevinskas, Rokas ^a   Gecevičius, Mindaugas ^a   Beresna, Martynas ^a   Bellouard, Yves ^b   Kazansky, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COLOR CENTERS; GLASS; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DISPERSION CONTROL; FEMTOSECOND LASER EXPOSURE; LASER-INDUCED DEFECT; LASER-MODIFIED GLASS; OXYGEN DEFICIENCY; SURFACE-TEXTURING; TAILORED SURFACES; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE;

WET ETCHING;

EID: 84921709505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.001428     Document Type: Article

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