Low-threshold whispering-gallery-mode microlasers fabricated in a Nd:glass substrate by three-dimensional femtosecond laser micromachining

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38, Issue 9, pp. 1458-1460 (May 2013)
• Jintian Lin, Yingxin Xu, Jiangxin Song, Bin Zeng, Fei He, Huailiang Xu, Koji Sugioka, Wei Fang, Ya Cheng

Deep nonlinear ablation of silicon with a quasi-continuous wave fiber laser at 1070 nm

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38, Issue 11, pp. 1799-1801 (June 2013)
• Karen X. Z. Yu, Logan G. Wright, Paul J. L. Webster, James. M. Fraser

Fabrication of fully integrated antiresonant reflecting optical waveguides using the femtosecond laser direct-write technique

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38, Issue 11, pp. 1872-1874 (June 2013)
• Simon Gross, Maider Alberich, Alexander Arriola, Michael J. Withford, Alexander Fuerbach

Large mode area waveguides with polarization functions by volume ultrafast laser photoinscription of fused silica

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38, Issue 11, pp. 1924-1926 (June 2013)
• G. Cheng, C. D’Amico, X. Liu, R. Stoian

Rapid fabrication of surface micro/nano structures with enhanced broadband absorption on Cu by picosecond laser

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• Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 10, pp. 11628-11637 (May 2013)
• Peixun Fan, Minlin Zhong, Lin Li, Ting Huang, Hongjun Zhang

Femtosecond laser induced surface swelling in poly-methyl methacrylate

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• Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 10, pp. 12527-12538 (May 2013)
• Farhana Baset, Konstantin Popov, Ana Villafranca, Jean-Michel Guay, Zeinab Al-Rekabi, Andrew E. Pelling, Lora Ramunno, Ravi Bhardwaj

Near-infrared femtosecond laser-triggered nanoperforation of hollow microcapsules

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• Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 10, pp. 12604-12610 (May 2013)
• Mitsuhiro Terakawa, Tatsuki Mitsuhashi, Takuya Shinohara, Hisashi Shimizu

The role of light-induced nanostructures in femtosecond laser micromachining with vector and scalar pulses

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• Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 10, pp. 12651-12656 (May 2013)
• Cyril Hnatovsky, Vladlen G. Shvedov, Wieslaw Krolikowski

A comparative study on reflection of nanosecond Nd-YAG laser pulses in ablation of metals in air and in vacuum

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• Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 11, pp. 13068-13074 (June 2013)
• O. Benavides, L. de la Cruz May, A. Flores Gil

Crack-free conditions in welding of glass by ultrashort laser pulse

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• Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 12, pp. 14291-14302 (June 2013)
• Isamu Miyamoto, Kristian Cvecek, Michael Schmidt

Beam shaping and high-speed, cylinder-lens-free beam guiding using acousto-optical deflectors without additional compensation optics

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• Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 12, pp. 14627-14635 (June 2013)
• Peter Bechtold, Ralph Hohenstein, Michael Schmidt

Formation of nanogratings in a transparent material with tunable ionization property by femtosecond laser irradiation

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• Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 13, pp. 15259-15267 (July 2013)
• Fadhil A. Umran, Yang Liao, Mazin M. Elias, Koji Sugioka, Razvan Stoian, Guanghua Cheng, Ya Cheng

Two important mechanisms damaging KH₂PO₄ crystal processed by ultraprecision fly cutting and their relationships with cutting parameters

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 52, Issue 15, pp. 3451-3460 (May 2013)
• Mingquan Li, Mingjun Chen, Jian Cheng, Yong Xiao, Wei Jiang

Adjustments of dielectrics craters and their surfaces by ultrafast laser pulse train based on localized electron dynamics control

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• Applied Optics, Vol. 52, Issue 17, pp. 4035-4041 (June 2013)
• Yanping Yuan, Lan Jiang, Xin Li, Cong Wang, Lei Yuan, Liangti Qu, Yongfeng Lu

Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing for tissue ablation

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• Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 4, Issue 6, pp. 831-841 (June 2013)
• Erica Block, Michael Greco, Dawn Vitek, Omid Masihzadeh, David A. Ammar, Malik Y. Kahook, Naresh Mandava, Charles Durfee, Jeff Squier

Femtosecond laser induced structural changes in fluorozirconate glass

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• Optical Materials Express, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 574-583 (May 2013)
• Simon Gross, David G. Lancaster, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Tanya M. Monro, Alexander Fuerbach, Michael J. Withford

Femtosecond laser-induced refractive index modifications in fluoride glass

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• Optical Materials Express, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 598-611 (May 2013)
• Jean-Philippe Bérubé, Martin Bernier, Réal Vallée

Efficient waveguide lasers in femtosecond laser inscribed double-cladding waveguides of Yb:YAG ceramics

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• Optical Materials Express, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 645-650 (May 2013)
• Yuechen Jia, J. R. Vázquez de Aldana, Feng Chen

Nanoindentation studies on waveguides inscribed in chalcogenide glasses using ultrafast laser

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• Optical Materials Express, Vol. 3, Issue 6, pp. 684-690 (June 2013)
• Tamilarasan Sabapathy, M. S. R. N. Kiran, Arunbabu Ayiriveetil, Ajoy K. Kar, U. Ramamurty, Sundarrajan Asokan

Feature issue introduction: optical ceramics

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• Optical Materials Express, Vol. 3, Issue 6, pp. 904-907 (June 2013)
• Jas Sanghera, Takunori Taira, Romain Gaume