• DocumentCode
    376165
  • Title

    Femtosecond laser-induced microexplosions in transparent materials

  • Author

    Ashcom, Jonathan B. ; Mazur, Eric

  • Author_Institution
    Div. of Appl. Phys., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    300
  • Abstract
    After reviewing some of the fundamentals of surface and bulk damage in transparent materials, this talk will present an overview of work being done in our laboratory on tightly focusing femtosecond pulses into the bulk of transparent materials with an emphasis on materials processing and micromachining
  • Keywords
    explosions; high-speed optical techniques; laser beam effects; laser beam machining; laser materials processing; micromachining; optical focusing; transparency; bulk damage; femtosecond laser-induced microexplosions; laboratory; laser materials processing; micromachining; overview; review; surface damage; tightly focusing femtosecond pulses; transparent materials; Absorption; Apertures; Ionization; Micromachining; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7105-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2001.969294
  • Filename
    969294