Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

“Quill” writing with ultrashort light pulses in transparent materials

2007; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 90; Issue: 15 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1063/1.2722240

ISSN

1520-8842

Autores

Peter G. Kazansky, Weijia Yang, Erica Bricchi, James M. Bovatsek, Alan Arai, Yasuhiko Shimotsuma, Kiyotaka Miura, Kazuyuki Hirao,

Tópico(s)

Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma

Resumo

A remarkable phenomenon in ultrafast laser processing of transparent materials, in particular, silica glass, manifested as a change in material modification by reversing the writing direction is observed. The effect resembles writing with a quill pen and is interpreted in terms of anisotropic trapping of electron plasma by a tilted front of the ultrashort laser pulse along the writing direction.

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