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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Ultrafast laser-induced micro-explosion: material modification tool

Ludovic RappJohn M. DudleyFrançois CourvoisierAndrei RodeRemo Guist GuistLuca FurfaroEugene G GamalySaulius JuodkazisPierre Ambroise Lacourt

subject

Materials sciencebusiness.industryScanning electron microscopePhysics::OpticsLaserlaw.inventionCrystalsymbols.namesakeOpticslawFemtosecondsymbolsSapphirebusinessUltrashort pulseOrder of magnitudeBessel function

description

Femtosecond Bessel pulses with a needle-like intensity distribution were focused inside sapphire crystal to create voids and the shock-wave affected volume which is by more than two orders of magnitude larger as compared with that made by the Gaussian pulse.

https://doi.org/10.1364/bgpp.2016.bt3b.4