Lightwave electronics in condensed matter

M Borsch, M Meierhofer, R Huber, M Kira - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Key properties of quantum materials stem from dynamic interaction chains that connect
stable electronic quasiparticles through short-lived coherences, which are difficult to control …

Hybrid laser precision engineering of transparent hard materials: challenges, solutions and applications

H Liu, W Lin, M Hong - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
Laser has been demonstrated to be a mature and versatile tool that presents great flexibility
and applicability for the precision engineering of a wide range of materials over other …

O-FIB: far-field-induced near-field breakdown for direct nanowriting in an atmospheric environment

ZZ Li, L Wang, H Fan, YH Yu, QD Chen… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Nanoscale surface texturing, drilling, cutting, and spatial sculpturing, which are essential for
applications, including thin-film solar cells, photonic chips, antireflection, wettability, and …

Ultrafast laser direct writing in glass: thermal accumulation engineering and applications

D Tan, B Zhang, J Qiu - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrafast laser direct writing (ULDW) is explored as a facile technique to induce
unprecedented physical phenomena and functional structures three dimensionally in glass …

Observation of high-order harmonic generation in a bulk crystal

S Ghimire, AD DiChiara, E Sistrunk, P Agostini… - Nature physics, 2011 - nature.com
Harmonic generation is a general feature of driven nonlinear systems. In particular high-
order harmonic generation (HHG) in atomic gases is the basis for producing attosecond …

Fabrication of micro/nano structures on metals by femtosecond laser micromachining

KMT Ahmmed, C Grambow, AM Kietzig - Micromachines, 2014 - mdpi.com
Femtosecond laser micromachining has emerged in recent years as a new technique for
micro/nano structure fabrication because of its applicability to virtually all kinds of materials …

Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials

RR Gattass, E Mazur - Nature photonics, 2008 - nature.com
Femtosecond laser micromachining can be used either to remove materials or to change a
material's properties, and can be applied to both absorptive and transparent substances …

Femtosecond filamentation in transparent media

A Couairon, A Mysyrowicz - Physics reports, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper introduces and discusses the main aspects of ultrashort laser pulse filamentation
in various transparent media such as air (gases), transparent solids and liquids. The …

Origin of laser-induced near-subwavelength ripples: interference between surface plasmons and incident laser

M Huang, F Zhao, Y Cheng, N Xu, Z Xu - ACS nano, 2009 - ACS Publications
We show that short-pulse laser-induced classical ripples on dielectrics, semiconductors, and
conductors exhibit a prominent “non-classical” characteristic in normal incidence the …

Laser writing of coherent colour centres in diamond

YC Chen, PS Salter, S Knauer, L Weng… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Optically active point defects in crystals have gained widespread attention as photonic
systems that could be applied in quantum information technologies,. However, challenges …