Nonstandard light for ultrafast laser microstructuring and nanostructuring

F Courvoisier - Ultrafast Laser Nanostructuring: The Pursuit of Extreme …, 2023 - Springer
Ultrashort laser pulses have revolutionized laser-matter interaction because they can
deposit energy at extremely small scales. High-speed and controlled nanostructuring has …

An optical needle with elongated transversal profile created using Airy beams for laser processing of glasses

P Šlevas, K Mundrys, O Ulčinas, S Orlov - Optics & Laser Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent decades, significant progress has been made in the field of laser beam shaping,
driven by the growing demands in both scientific research and industrial applications …

Azimuthally modulated axicon vortical beams for laser microprocessing

P Šlevas, S Orlov, E Nacius, O Ulčinas - Optics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-diffracting beams have contributed greatly to recent developments in high power
applications such as laser micromachining. Well known for their elongated focal region (also …

Ultrafast laser nanostructuring in transparent materials for beam shaping and data storage

Y Lei, H Wang, G Shayeganrad… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We review recent progress in femtosecond laser anisotropic nanostructuring of transparent
materials, including silica glass and thin films. With different writing parameters, oblate …

Void and micro-crack generation in transparent materials with high-energy first-order vector Bessel beam

J Baltrukonis, O Ulčinas, S Orlov, V Jukna - JOSA B, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we present efficient generation of a high-quality vector Bessel beam using an S-
wave plate (radial/azimuth polarization converter) together with an ordinary glass axicon …

Generation of an optical needle beam with a laser inscribed Pancharatnam-Berry phase element under imperfect conditions

P Gotovski, P Šlevas, S Orlov, O Ulčinas, A Urbas - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Beams exhibiting long focal lines and small focal spot sizes are desired in a variety of
applications and are called optical needles, with Bessel beams being a common example …

Investigation of the Pancharatnam–Berry phase element for the generation of the top-hat beam

P Gotovski, P Šlevas, S Orlov, O Ulčinas… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Within optics, the Pancharatnam–Berry phase enables the design and creation of
various flat special optical elements such as top-hat converters. We present a study on …

Spatially displaced and superposed Bessel beams for transparent material laser microprocessing

E Nacius, P Gotovski, O Ulčinas, S Orlov, A Urbas… - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Invariant Bessel–Gauss beams have attracted great interest for transparent material
microprocessing applications. The small central peak and elongated focal region of the …

Polarization singularities for shaping of vector flat-top beams in utilization for high-power laser micromachining of various materials

E Nacius, O Ulčinas, S Orlov, V Jukna - Optics & Laser Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Structured light is desired in the micromachining of various materials. As the latest ultrashort
laser sources increase the average power by increasing the repetition rate, the efficiency of …

Braiding of vortices in superpositions of Bessel–Gaussian beams for creation of high-contrast intensity structures

P Šlevas, S Orlov - Optik, 2024 - Elsevier
Bessel vortices are well-known for their long focal region and the unique property of carrying
angular momentum. These characteristics are desired in applications such as laser …