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Multilayer aberration correction for depth-independent three-dimensional crystal growth in glass by femtosecond laser heating

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• JOSA B, Vol. 30 Issue 5, pp.1234-1240 (2013)
• Stone, Adam; Jain, Himanshu; Dierolf, Volkmar; Sakakura, Masaaki; Shimotsuma, Yasuhiko; Miura, Kiyotaka; Hirao, Kazuyuki
• Focused femtosecond lasers are known for their ability to modify transparent materials well below the surface with 3D selectivity, but spherical aberration causes degraded focal...

Surface structuring of fused silica with asymmetric femtosecond laser pulse bursts

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• JOSA B, Vol. 30 Issue 5, pp.1352-1356 (2013)
• Hernandez-Rueda, Javier; Siegel, Jan; Galvan-Sosa, Marcial; Ruiz de la Cruz, Alexandro; Solis, Javier
• Fused silica surface structuring has been performed using temporally shaped femtosecond laser pulses. For this purpose we have designed pulse bursts with a triangular intensity...

Propagation-induced changes in the instantaneous polarization state, phase, and carrier–envelope phase of few-cycle pulsed beams

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• JOSA B, Vol. 30 Issue 6, pp.1652-1659 (2013)
• Porras, Miguel A
• We describe the temporal evolution of the electric field of few-cycle optical pulses with arbitrary, time-varying polarization states by means of the instantaneous polarization ellipse...

On-axis non-linear effects with programmable Dammann lenses under femtosecond illumination

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 10, pp.1621-1623 (2013)
• Vizcaíno, Jorge Pérez; Mendoza-Yero, Omel; Borrego-Varillas, Rocío; Mínguez-Vega, Gladys; Vázquez de Aldana, Javier R; Láncis, Jesús
• We demonstrate the utilization of Dammann lenses codified onto a spatial light modulator (SLM) for triggering non-linear effects. With continuous wave illumination Dammann lenses are...

Mechanical wave motion due to the radiation pressure on gain or absorptive rods

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 10, pp.1754-1756 (2013)
• Požar, Tomaž; Možina, Janez
• The interaction of a light pulse with reflective and either a passive, lossy medium or an active medium with population inversion gives rise to elastic waves, already as a result of...

Cascaded four-wave mixing for broadband tunable laser sideband generation

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1772-1774 (2013)
• Liu, Weimin; Zhu, Liangdong; Wang, Liang; Fang, Chong
• We demonstrate the versatile broadband wavelength tunability of frequency upconverted multicolor cascaded four-wave-mixing (CFWM) signals spanning the continuous wavelength range from...

Large mode area waveguides with polarization functions by volume ultrafast laser photoinscription of fused silica

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 38 Issue 11, pp.1924-1926 (2013)
• Cheng, G; D’Amico, C; Liu, X; Stoian, R
• We present optical designs allowing large mode area light guiding by ultrafast laser photoinscription of bulk fused silica. If usual concepts are based on large core and depressed...