[HTML][HTML] Nanoscale confinement of energy deposition in glass by double ultrafast Bessel pulses

J del Hoyo, R Meyer, L Furfaro, F Courvoisier - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Ultrafast laser pulses spatially shaped as Bessel beams in dielectrics create high aspect
ratio plasma channels whose relaxation can lead to the formation of nanochannels. We …

Optimization of laser energy deposition for single-shot high aspect-ratio microstructuring of thick BK7 glass

V Garzillo, V Jukna, A Couairon, R Grigutis… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the generation of high aspect ratio microstructures across 0.7 mm thick glass
by means of single shot Bessel beam laser direct writing. We study the effect on the …

Ultrafast imaging of transient electronic plasmas produced in conditions of femtosecond waveguide writing in dielectrics

W Gawelda, D Puerto, J Siegel, A Ferrer… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Femtosecond laser-induced plasmas in bulk dielectrics are imaged under waveguide writing
conditions, for different polarizations, pulse durations, and processing depths, and their …

Submicron-quality cleaving of glass with elliptical ultrafast Bessel beams

R Meyer, R Giust, M Jacquot, JM Dudley… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The material processing technique of “stealth” nanomachining is based on translating a
longitudinally extended beam such as a Bessel beam into a transparent sample to generate …

Limitations to laser machining of silicon using femtosecond micro-Bessel beams in the infrared

D Grojo, A Mouskeftaras, P Delaporte… - Journal of Applied Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We produce and characterize high-angle femtosecond Bessel beams at 1300-nm
wavelength leading to nonlinearly ionized plasma micro-channels in both glass and silicon …

Dynamics of plasma formation, relaxation, and topography modification induced by femtosecond laser pulses in crystalline and amorphous dielectrics

D Puerto, J Siegel, W Gawelda, M Galvan-Sosa… - JOSA B, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We have studied plasma formation and relaxation dynamics along with the corresponding
topography modifications in fused silica and sapphire induced by single femtosecond laser …

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 …

Ultra-fast laser absorption and ablation dynamics in wide-band-gap dielectrics

IH Chowdhury, AQ Wu, X Xu, AM Weiner - Applied Physics A, 2005 - Springer
The highly nonlinear laser–matter interaction conditions produced by high-intensity
amplified ultra-fast laser pulses have proven to be beneficial in the processing of normally …

[HTML][HTML] Tubular filamentation for laser material processing

C Xie, V Jukna, C Milián, R Giust, I Ouadghiri-Idrissi… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
An open challenge in the important field of femtosecond laser material processing is the
controlled internal structuring of dielectric materials. Although the availability of high energy …

Femtosecond laser ablation of dielectric materials in the optical breakdown regime: Expansion of a transparent shell

M García-Lechuga, J Siegel… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Phase transition pathways of matter upon ablation with ultrashort laser pulses have been
considered to be understood long-since for metals and semiconductors. We provide …