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Wrinkled axicons: shaping light from cusps

Authors :
Etienne Brasselet
Saulius Juodkazis
Benjamin Sanchez-Padilla
Artur Aleksanyan
Albertas Žukauskas
Armandas Balčytis
Mangirdas Malinauskas
Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine (LOMA)
Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Department of Quantum Electronics [Vilnius]
Vilnius University [Vilnius]
Centre for Micro-Photonics [Hawthorn]
Swinburne University of Technology [Melbourne]
Source :
Optics Express, Optics Express, Optical Society of America-OSA Publishing, 2016, 24 (21), pp.24075-24082. ⟨10.1364/OE.24.024075⟩
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

International audience; We propose a novel class of refractive optical elements by wrinkling the conical surface of a usual (conical) axicon, which leads to geometrical singularities (cusps). Such wrinkled axicons have been fabricated at the micron scale by using three-dimensional femtosecond-laser photopolymerization technique and we report on their experimental and numerical characterization. The beam shaping capabilities of these structures are discussed for both intensity and phase, which includes topological beam shaping that results from azimuthally modulated optical spin-orbit interaction.

Details

ISSN :
10944087
Volume :
24
Issue :
21
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Optics express
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....c854ce12735cc04f747a75e6a47364be
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.024075⟩