Fabrication of Fresnel zone plate embedded in silica glass by femtosecond laser pulses
Optics Express, Vol. 10, Issue 19, pp. 978-983 (2002)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.10.000978
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Abstract
We fabricated the Fresnel zone plate by embedding voids in silica glass. We investigated the focusing properties by launching a He-Ne laser beam into the zone plate. The spot size of the primary focal point was 7.0 μm and agreed with the theoretical value of 6.1 μm. The diffraction efficiency was 2.0 %. This technique enables us to make alignment free micro-scale lenses inside bulk materials.
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OCIS Codes
(050.1970) Diffraction and gratings : Diffractive optics
(320.7110) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
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History
Original Manuscript: August 21, 2002
Revised Manuscript: September 8, 2002
Published: September 23, 2002
Citation
Wataru Watanabe, Daisuke Kuroda, Kazuyoshi Itoh, and Junji Nishii, "Fabrication of Fresnel zone plate embedded in silica glass by femtosecond laser pulses," Opt. Express 10, 978-983 (2002)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-10-19-978
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