High aspect ratio nanochannel machining using single shot femtosecond Bessel beams

MK Bhuyan, F Courvoisier, PA Lacourt… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We report high aspect ratio nanochannel fabrication in glass using single-shot femtosecond
Bessel beams of sub-3 J pulse energies at 800 nm. We obtain near-parallel nanochannels …

Millijoule femtosecond micro-Bessel beams for ultra-high aspect ratio machining

S Mitra, M Chanal, R Clady, A Mouskeftaras, D Grojo - Applied optics, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We report on a functional experimental design for Bessel beam generation capable of
handling high-energy ultrashort pulses (up to 1.2 mJ per pulse of 50 fs duration). This allows …

High aspect ratio taper-free microchannel fabrication using femtosecond Bessel beams

MK Bhuyan, F Courvoisier, PA Lacourt, M Jacquot… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We present a systematic study of femtosecond laser microchannel machining in glass using
nondiffracting Bessel beams. In particular, our results identify a source and focusing …

Applications of femtosecond Bessel beams to laser ablation

F Courvoisier, J Zhang, MK Bhuyan, M Jacquot… - Applied Physics A, 2013 - Springer
Nondiffracting Bessel beams have been recently applied to single shot ultrafast laser
processing of high aspect ratio nanochannels. We review the principles and benefits of …

Micromachining along a curve: Femtosecond laser micromachining of curved profiles in diamond and silicon using accelerating beams

A Mathis, F Courvoisier, L Froehly, L Furfaro… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We report femtosecond laser micromachining of micron-size curved structures using tailored
accelerating beams. We report surface curvatures as small as 70 μm in both diamond and …

Practical uses of femtosecond laser micro-materials processing

A Zoubir, L Shah, K Richardson, M Richardson - Applied Physics A, 2003 - Springer
We describe several approaches to basic femtosecond machining and materials processing
that should lead to practical applications. Included are results on high-throughput deep hole …

Repeatable nanostructures in dielectrics by femtosecond laser pulse trains

L Jiang, HL Tsai - Applied Physics Letters, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Using the plasma model recent developed by the authors, this study predicts the existence
of a constant ablation-depth zone with respect to fluence in femtosecond laser ablation of …

Single-shot high aspect ratio bulk nanostructuring of fused silica using chirp-controlled ultrafast laser Bessel beams

MK Bhuyan, PK Velpula, JP Colombier, T Olivier… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We report single-shot, high aspect ratio nanovoid fabrication in bulk fused silica using zeroth
order chirp-controlled ultrafast laser Bessel beams. We identify a unique laser pulse length …

Temporally focused femtosecond laser pulses for low numerical aperture micromachining through optically transparent materials

DN Vitek, DE Adams, A Johnson, PS Tsai, S Backus… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Temporal focusing of spatially chirped femtosecond laser pulses overcomes previous
limitations for ablating high aspect ratio features with low numerical aperture (NA) beams …

Femtosecond micromachining of symmetric waveguides at 1.5 µm by astigmatic beam focusing

G Cerullo, R Osellame, S Taccheo, M Marangoni… - Optics letters, 2002 - opg.optica.org
We report on a new spatial beam-shaping approach for fabrication of waveguides with a
circular transverse profile by femtosecond laser pulses, using an astigmatic beam and …