Laser-induced breakdown and damage in bulk transparent materials induced by tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses

By C. Schaffer, A. Brodeur, E. Mazur. 2001

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Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Ophthalmology

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Three-dimensional femtosecond laser processing for lab-on-a-chip applications (2018, background): “As a consequence, the density of electrons in the conduction band grows until the plasma frequency equals the laser frequency, where optical breakdown takes place and most of the incident laser energy is absorbed by the electron plasma [23].”
Ultrafast-laser-inscribed 3D integrated photonics: challenges and emerging applications (2015, background): “25 NA focusing in borosilicate glass have been reported [108].”
Fabrication of Micro/Nano Structures on Metals by Femtosecond Laser Micromachining (2014, background): “femtosecond lasers, novel techniques, such as lasing transparent materials can be explored [41,42].”
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Thermal and fluid processes of a thin melt zone during femtosecond laser ablation of glass: the formation of rims by single laser pulses (2007, background): “In the first picosecond (figure 4(a)), part of the incident laser energy is absorbed by electrons through multiphoton and avalanche ionization [19,20] and then transferred to the lattice on the time scale of few picoseconds.”