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Materials processing with a tightly focused femtosecond vortex laser pulse
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This letter is the first demonstration of material modification using tightly focused femtosecond laser vortex beams. Double-charge femtosecond vortices were synthesized with the polarization-singularity beam converter described in Ref [1] and then focused using moderate and high numerical aperture optics (viz., NA = 0.45 and 0.9) to ablate fused silica and soda-lime glasses. By controlling the pulse energy we consistently machine high-quality micron-size ring-shaped structures with less than 100 nm uniform groove thickness.<br />Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, 10 references; submitted to Apl. Phys. Lett. 31 May 2010
- Subjects :
- Physics - Optics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1006.0100
- Document Type :
- Working Paper