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Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 5, 488(2017)

Enhancing the expansion of a plasma shockwave by crater-induced laser refocusing in femtosecond laser ablation of fused silica

Qingsong Wang¹, Lan Jiang^1、*, Jingya Sun¹, Changji Pan¹, Weina Han¹, Guoyan Wang¹, Hao Zhang¹, Costas P. Grigoropoulos², and Yongfeng Lu³

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¹Laser Micro/Nano Fabrication Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

²Laser Thermal Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

³Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0511, USA

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Jul. 13, 2017

Accepted: Aug. 21, 2017

Published Online: Sep. 20, 2017

The Author Email: Lan Jiang (jianglan@bit.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000488

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