Femtosecond laser erasing and rewriting of self-organized planar nanocracks in fused silica glass
Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 19, pp. 2888-2890 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.32.002888
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Abstract
Tightly focused, linearly polarized, femtosecond laser radiation can produce highly birefringent nanograting structures inside fused silica glass. Here we report that when the polarization direction of the femtosecond light is changed, old nanogratings are erased and simultaneously replaced with new ones whose orientation is solely determined by the polarization of the rewrite beam. We also show that these volume nanogratings can be rewritten 1000 times with little degradation in their quality.
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OCIS Codes
(160.6030) Materials : Silica
(220.4000) Optical design and fabrication : Microstructure fabrication
(230.3990) Optical devices : Micro-optical devices
(320.2250) Ultrafast optics : Femtosecond phenomena
(350.3390) Other areas of optics : Laser materials processing
ToC Category:
Ultrafast Optics
History
Original Manuscript: July 10, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: August 24, 2007
Published: September 28, 2007
Citation
R. S. Taylor, C. Hnatovsky, E. Simova, P. P. Rajeev, D. M. Rayner, and P. B. Corkum, "Femtosecond laser erasing and rewriting of self-organized planar nanocracks in fused silica glass," Opt. Lett. 32, 2888-2890 (2007)
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