Ultrafast laser direct writing (ULDW) is explored as a facile technique to induce
unprecedented physical phenomena and functional structures three dimensionally in glass …

Femtosecond laser micromachining can be used either to remove materials or to change a
material's properties, and can be applied to both absorptive and transparent substances …

Photonic lanterns are made by adiabatically merging several single-mode cores into one
multimode core. They provide low-loss interfaces between single-mode and multimode …

We review recent advances in laser cell surgery, and investigate the working mechanisms of
femtosecond laser nanoprocessing in biomaterials with oscillator pulses of 80-MHz …

Erbium‐doped fiber devices have been extraordinarily successful due to their broad optical
gain around 1.5–1.6 µm. Er‐doped fiber amplifiers enable efficient, stable amplification of …

When a femtosecond laser pulse is focused inside a transparent material, the optical
intensity in the focal volume can become high enough to induce permanent structural …

We report both theoretical and experimental results of a slit beam shaping configuration for
fabricating photonic waveguides by use of femtosecond laser pulses. Most importantly we …

This paper reviews the recent advancements achieved using ultrafast laser inscription (ULI)
that highlight the cross‐disciplinary potential of the technology. An overview of waveguide …

This Review provides an exhaustive and detailed description of ion migration phenomena
which occur inside transparent dielectric media due to the interaction with intense ultrashort …

The tremendous interest in the field of waveguide lasers in the past two decades is largely
attributed to the geometry of the gain medium, which provides the possibility to store optical …