Micromachining of transparent materials

Light and Matter Interactions: Going with the Grain

Chris B. Schaffer
Nature Photonics 2, 73 (2008)

Photonic band-gap fiber gas cell fabricated using femtosecond micromachining

Christopher J. Hensley , Daniel H. Broaddus, Chris B. Schaffer, and Alexander L. Gaeta
Optics Express 15, 6690 (2007)

Ultrafast processes for bulk modification of transparent materials

Kazuyoshi Itoh, Wataru Watanabe, Stefan Nolte, and Chris B. Schaffer
Materials Research Society Bulletin, August 2006, Vol. 71, p. 620

Numerical aperture dependence of damage and supercontinuum generation from femtosecond laser pulses in bulk fused silica

Jonathan B. Ashcom, Rafael R. Gattass, Chris B. Schaffer, and Eric Mazur
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 23, 2317 (2006)

Femtosecond laser-drilled capillary integrated into a microfluidic device

Tyson N. Kim, Kyle Campbell, Alex Groisman, David Kleinfeld, and Chris B. Schaffer
Applied Physics Letters 86, 201106 (2005)

Morphology of femtosecond laser-induced structural changes in bulk transparent materials

Chris B. Schaffer, Alan O. Jamison, and Eric Mazur
Applied Physics Letters 84, 1441 (2004)

Customization of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Stamps by Micromachining Using a Femtosecond-Pulsed Laser

Daniel B. Wolfe, Jonathan B. Ashcom, Jeremy C. Hwang, Chris B. Schaffer, Eric Mazur, and George M. Whitesides
Advanced Materials 15, 62 (2003)

Microexplosions in tellurite glasses

S.K. Sundaram, Chris B. Schaffer, and Eric Mazur
Applied Physics A 76, 379 (2003)

Bulk heating of transparent materials using a high-repetition-rate femtosecond laser

Chris B. Schaffer, Jose F. Garcia, and Eric Mazur
Applied Physics A 76, 351 (2003)

Laser-induced breakdown and damage in bulk transparent materials induced by tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses

Chris B. Schaffer, Andre Brodeur, and Eric Mazur
Measurement Science and Technology 12, 1784 (2001)

Time-decorrelated multifocal micromachining and trapping

David N. Fittinghoff, Chris B. Schaffer, Eric Mazur, and Jeffrey A. Squier
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 7, 559 (2001)

Interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with transparent materials

Chris B. Schaffer
Harvard University Ph.D. Thesis, June 2001

Micromachining using ultrashort pulses from a laser oscillator

Chris B. Schaffer and Eric Mazur
Optics and Photonics News, April 2001, p. 20

Micromachining bulk glass by use of femtosecond laser pulses with nanojoule energy

Chris B. Schaffer, André Brodeur, José F. García, and Eric Mazur
Optics Letters 26, 93 (2001)

Programmable shaping of ultrabroad-bandwidth pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser

Anatoly Efimov, Chris Schaffer, David H. Reitze
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 12, 1968 (1995)