Femtosecond laser induced phenomena in transparent solid materials: Fundamentals and applications

D Tan, KN Sharafudeen, Y Yue, J Qiu - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with transparent materials is a topic that
has caused great interest of scientists over the past two decades. It will continue to be a …

From random inhomogeneities to periodic nanostructures induced in bulk silica by ultrashort laser

A Rudenko, JP Colombier, TE Itina - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Femtosecond laser-induced volume nanograting formation is numerically investigated. The
developed model solves nonlinear Maxwell's equations coupled with multiple rate free …

Tailoring chiral optical properties by femtosecond laser direct writing in silica

J Lu, J Tian, B Poumellec, E Garcia-Caurel… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
An object that possesses chirality, that is, having its mirror image not overlayed on itself by
rotation and translation, can provide a different optical response to a left-or right-handed …

Modification of transparent materials with ultrashort laser pulses: What is energetically and mechanically meaningful?

NM Bulgakova, VP Zhukov, SV Sonina… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
A comprehensive analysis of laser-induced modification of bulk glass by single ultrashort
laser pulses is presented which is based on combination of optical Maxwell-based modeling …

[HTML][HTML] 3D structured Bessel beam polarization and its application to imprint chiral optical properties in silica

J Lu, M Hassan, F Courvoisier, E Garcia-Caurel… - Apl Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Polarization plays a crucial role in light–matter interactions; hence its overall manipulation is
an essential key to unlock the versatility of light manufacturing, especially in femtosecond …

Breakthroughs in photonics 2014: spatiotemporal focusing: advances and applications

CG Durfee, JA Squier - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploiting the characteristics of spatially chirped ultrafast pulses has been an increasingly
active area of research. In this paper, we review the developments in the past year of the …

Controlling plasma distributions as driving forces for ion migration during fs laser writing

TT Fernandez, J Siegel, J Hoyo, B Sotillo… - Journal of Physics D …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The properties of structures written inside dielectrics with high repetition rate femtosecond
lasers are known to depend strongly on the complex interplay of a large number of writing …

Form birefringence induced in multicomponent glass by femtosecond laser direct writing

J Cao, L Mazerolles, M Lancry, D Solas, F Brisset… - Optics Letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a new kind of form birefringence in lithium niobium silicate glass induced
by femtosecond laser direct writing. By combining electron backscatter diffraction and …

Space variant fiber nanogratings induced by femtosecond laser direct writing

J Lu, L Teng, Q Zhai, C Wang, M Lancry, Y Dai… - Applied Surface …, 2024 - Elsevier
Light-matter interaction within ultrashort duration time contributes to the nonlinear
photoionization that allows diverse nanostructures, especially subwavelength nanogratings …

Nanostructured silica spin–orbit optics for modal vortex beam shaping

D Coursault, E Brasselet - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Modality is a generic concept of wave-optics at the basis of optical information and
communications. One of the challenges of photonics technologies based on optical orbital …