Título
Ultrafast lasers: A new frontier for optical materials processing
Autor(es)
Palabras clave
Ultrafast lasers technology
Ultrafast processing of optical materials
Fabrication of photonic devices by femtosecond laser pulses.
Fecha de publicación
2012-01
Citación
Vázquez de Aldana, J. R., Moreno, P., & Roso, L. (2012). Ultrafast lasers: A new frontier for optical materials processing. Special Issue of the International Workshop on Solid State Lasers: «Solid State Lasers. 50 years after», University Rovira i Virgili, March 19-20, 2010, Tarragona, Spain, 34(3), 572-578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2011.05.002
Resumen
In the last years, ultrashort laser pulses have gone through the laboratory walls to burst into the industrial arena as a tool for material micro- and nanoprocessing. The number of industrial fields and specific applications is steadily growing, reaching the nanotechnology applications. Now, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the CPA (chirped pulse amplification) technique which made available intense ultrashort (subpicosecond) pulses able to induce ablation of any material. This contribution tries to review the fundamentals of ultrafast lasers as well as some of their applications, emphasizing the processing of optical materials.
URI
ISSN
0925-3467
DOI
10.1016/j.optmat.2011.05.002
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