• DocumentCode
    2986246
  • Title

    The physics and limits of femtosecond laser micromachining

  • Author

    Ke, Kevin ; Joglekar, Ajit P. ; Liu, Hsiao-Hua ; Meyhöfer, Edgar ; Hasselbrink, Ernest ; Mourou, Gerard ; Hunt, Alan J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    1912
  • Abstract
    Laser-induced optical breakdown by femtosecond pulses is extraordinarily precise when the energy is near threshold. We examine the limits of femtosecond machining through studies of damage induced by tightly focused pulses in a variety of materials.
  • Keywords
    electric breakdown; high-speed optical techniques; laser beam effects; laser beam machining; laser materials processing; micromachining; optical fabrication; optical focusing; femtosecond laser micromachining; femtosecond machining; femtosecond pulses; laser-induced optical breakdown; Electric breakdown; Electrons; Ionization; Laser theory; Machining; Micromachining; Optical materials; Photonic band gap; Physics; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.202317
  • Filename
    1573383