Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 11, 111404(2020)

Control of Subwavelength Periodic Surface Structure Formation with Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Bo Zhao1,2, Xin Zheng1, Tingting Zou1, Hongbo Xie1, Wei Xin1, Jianjun Yang1、*, and Chunlei Guo1
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130033, China
  • 2Department of Electronic Information and Physics, Changzhi University, Changzhi, Shanxi, 0 46011, China
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    Bo Zhao, Xin Zheng, Tingting Zou, Hongbo Xie, Wei Xin, Jianjun Yang, Chunlei Guo. Control of Subwavelength Periodic Surface Structure Formation with Femtosecond Laser Pulses[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(11): 111404

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    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Mar. 2, 2020

    Accepted: Apr. 10, 2020

    Published Online: Jun. 2, 2020

    The Author Email: Yang Jianjun (jjyang@ciomp.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.111404

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