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 …

Nondiffracting beams are known for their long line of focus, which has various applications
in laser materials processing. Zeroth order Bessel beam is usually generated with an axicon …

Self-accelerating Airy beams have emerged to hold great promise in wide applications due
to their non-diffraction and self-healing characteristics. The generation of Airy beams with …

In this theses I will concentrate on femtosecond laser induced modification in silica glass.
One type of modification in fused silica is subwavelength nanogratings. This modification …

Needle-like electromagnetic field has various advantages for the applications in high-
resolution imaging, Raman spectroscopy, as well as long-distance optical transportation …

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 …

We generalize the well-known method of generating nondiffracting beams based on axicons
in the near-field using phase modulations with azimuthal dependencies. The enormous …

We design and fabricate a hybrid refractive–diffractive cubic phase plate (CPP) with a
combined conventional blazed grating for generating high quality Airy beams. The grating …

Single-pass cutting of glass substrates with a curved edge is demonstrated using ultrafast
curving Bessel and Airy beams, and the advantages of each beam are considered. To …

Long focal lines with transverse spot sizes as small as a few wavelengths are called optical
needles. A zeroth order Bessel beam being a good example is widely used in such …