Title :
Spatio-temporally focused femtosecond laser pulses for anisotropic writing in optically transparent materials
Author :
Vitek, Dawn N. ; Block, Erica ; Bellouard, Yves ; Adams, Daniel E. ; Backus, Sterling ; Kleinfeld, David ; Durfee, Charles ; Squier, Jeffrey A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Colorado Sch. of Mines, Golden, CO, USA
Abstract :
Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing provides precise control of the pulse front tilt necessary for anisotropic writing and maintains this behavior over a large range of focal positions and at low numerical aperture and fluence.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; optical control; optical focusing; transparency; anisotropic writing; focal positions; numerical aperture; optically transparent materials; pulse control; spatio-temporally focused femtosecond laser pulses; Laser beams; Lasers; Materials; Optical device fabrication; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
