Spatio-temporal control of laser beams with thin-film shapers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5333, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-11

  Grunwald, Ruediger ^a   Neumann, Uwe ^a   Griebner, Uwe ^a   Kebbel, Volker ^b   Kuehn, Hans Joachim ^c  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Quarterwave GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diode laser collimation; Femtosecond lasers; Localized wavepackets; Microaxicons; Microlenses; Microoptics; Nondiffracting beams; Thin films; Ultrafast optics; Vacuum ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

MICROLENSES; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL FILMS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM;

DIODE LASER COLLIMATION; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; LOCALIZED WAVEPACKETS; MICROAXICONS; NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 3543083411     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.526661     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (55)

1. R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, F. Tschirschwitz, E. T. J. Nibbering, T. Elsaesser, V. Kebbel, H.-J. Hartmann, W. Jüptner, "Generation of femtosecond Bessel beams with microaxicon arrays," Opt. Lett. 25, 981-983 (2000).
2. R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, E. T. J. Nibbering, A. Kummrow, M. Rini, T. Elsaesser, V. Kebbel, H.-J. Hartmann, W. Jüptner, "Spatially resolved small-angle noncollinear interferometric autocorrelation of ultrashort pulses with microaxicon arrays," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18, 2923-2931 (2001).
3. R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, M. Piché, "Spatio-temporal processing of femtosecond laser pulses with thin-film microoptics," Proc. SPIE 5181, 1-11 (2003).
4. R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, "Micro-optical beam shaping of supershort-pulse lasers," in: J. Jahns (Ed.) Microoptics -from technology to applications, (Springer Series in Optical Sciences, Springer Verlag), in press.
5. L. d'Auria, J. P. Huignaerd, A. M. Roy, E. Spitz, "Photolithographic fabrication of thin-film lenses," Opt. Commun. 5, 232-235 (1972).
6. S. Sinzinger, J. Jahns, Microoptics, (Weinheim, New York, 1999), pp. 37-84.
7. M. Kufner, S. Kufner, Micro-optics and lithography, (VUBPress, Brussels, 1997), p. 170.
8. M. T. Gale, "Direct Writing of continuous-relief micro-optics," in H.-P. Herzig (ed.), Micro-Optics - Elements, systems and applications, (Taylor & Francis, London, 1997), pp. 87-126.
9. S. K. Yao, D. B. Anderson, "Shadow sputtered diffraction-limited waveguide Luneburg lenses," Appl. Phys. Lett. 33, 307-309 (1978).
10. S. K. Yao, D. B. Anderson, R. R. August, B. R. Youmans, C. M. Oania, "Guided-wave optical thin-film Luneburg lenses: fabrication technique and properties," Appl. Opt. 18, 4067-4079.
11. S. K. Yao, "Theoretical model of thin-film deposition profile with shadow effect," J. Appl. Phys. 50, 3390-3395 (1979).
12. R. Grunwald, H. Mischke, W. Rehak, "Microlens formation by thin-film deposition with mesh-shaped masks," Appl. Opt. 38, 4117-4124 (1999).
13. R. Grunwald, S. Woggon, R. Ehlert, "Fabrication of thin-film microlens arrays by mask-shaded vacuum deposition," in S. Martellucci, A. N. Chester (Eds.), Diffractive Optics and Optical Microsystems, (Plenum Press, New York 1997), pp. 169-177.
14. R. Grunwald, S. Woggon, U. Griebner, R. Ehlert, W. Reinecke, "Axial beam shaping with non-spherical microlenses," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 37, 3701-3707 (1998).
15. R. Grunwald, S. Woggon, R. Ehlert, W. Reinecke, "Thin-film microlens arrays with non-spherical elements," Pure Appl. Opt. 6, 663-671 (1997).
16. R. Grunwald, S. Nerreter, U. Griebner, H.-J. Kuehn "Design, characterization and application of multilayer micro-optics," Proc. SPIE 4437, 40-49 (2001).
17. R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, V. Kebbel, H.-J. Kühn, K. Mann, U. Leinhos, H. Mischke, D. Wulff-Molder, "VUV beam array generation by flat microoptical structures," submitted to Opt. Lett.
18. A. Fischer, Development of measuring techniques for the angular and spatially resolved reflectance measurement of multilayer gradient microoptics, Diploma thesis, Technical High-School Wildau (TFHW), August 1, 2002 (in German).
19. F. Dörfel, S. Nerreter, J. W. Tomm, R. Grunwald, R. Kunkel, J. Luft, "Micro-Reflectance Inspection of Diode Laser Front Facets," Proc. SPIE Vol. 4648, 48-54 (2002).
20. J. Durnin, J. J. Miceli, Jr., J. H. Eberly, "Diffraction-free beams," Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1499-1501 (1987).
21. R.M. Herman, T.A. Wiggins, "Production and uses of diffractionless beams," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8, 932-942 (1991).
22. Z. Bouchal, J. Wagner and M. Chlup, "Self-reconstruction of a distorted nondiffracting beam," Opt. Commun. 151, 207 (1998).
23. M. O. Scully, M. S. Zubairy, "Simple laser accelerator: Optics and particle dynamics," Phys. Rev. A 44, 2656-2663 (1991).
24. B. Hafizi, E. Esarey and P. Sprangle, "Laser-driven acceleration with Bessel beams," Phys. Rev. E 55, 3539-3545 (1997).
25. V. Garcés-Chávez, D. McGloin, H. Melville, W. Sibbett and K. Dholakia, "Simultaneous micromanipulation in multiple planes using a self-reconstructing a light beam," Nature 419, 145 (2002).
26. M. Erdélyi, Z. L. Horváth, G. Szabó, Zs. Bor, F. K. Tittel, J. R. Cavallaro, M. C. Smayling, "Generation of diffraction-free beams for applications in optical microlithography," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 15, 287-292 (1997).
27. Andrius Marcinkevičius, Saulius Juodkazis, Vygantas Mizeikis, Shigeki Matsuo, Hiroaki Misawa, "Application of femtosecond Bessel-Gauss beam hi microstructuring of transparent materials," Proc. SPIE 4271, 150-158 (2001).
28. T. Wulle, S. Herminghaus, "Nonlinear Optics of Bessel beam," Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1401-1404 (1993).
29. J. Arlt, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, M. J. Padgett, "Efficiency of second-harmonic generation with Bessel beams," Phys. Rev. A 60, 2438-2441 (1999).
30. C. Altucci, R. Bruzzese, C. de Lisio, M. Nisoli, S. Stagira, S. De Silvestri, L. Poletto, P. Villoresi, V. Tosa, K. Midorikawa, "Phase-matching analysis of high-order harmonics generated by truncated Bessel beams in the sub-10-fs regime," ICOMP IX, 18-23 Oct. 2002, Elounda, Crete, Greek, see: http://www.iesl.forth.gricomp9/abstracts/Oral/C. %20Altucci%20abstract.pdf.
31. V. Pasiskevicius, A. Piskarskas, V. Smilgevicius, A Stabinis, V. Jarutis, S Wang, J. Tellefsen, and F. Laurell, "Noncollinear second harmonic generation in periodically poled KTP excited by a Bessel beam," Opt. Lett. 24, 1053 (1999).
32. V. Pasiskevicius, H. Karlsson, J. A. Tellefsen, F. Laurell, R Butkus, A. Piskarskas, V. Smilgevicius, A Stabinis, "Singly-resonant optical parametric oscillator in periodically poled KTP pumped by a Bessel beam," Opt. Lett. 25, 969 (2000).
33. J.Y. Lu, J.F. Greenleaf: Nondiffracting X-waves, "Exact Solutions to free space scalar wave equation and their finite aperture realizations," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelec. Freq. Cont. 39, 19-31 (1992).
34. P. Saari, K. Reivelt, "Evidence of x-shaped propagation-invariant localized light waves," Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4135-4138 (1997).
35. C. Conti, S. Trillo, P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, A. Piskarskas, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, Nonlinear Electromagnetic X waves, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 170406 (2003).
36. Y. S. Kivshar, G. P. Agrawal, Optical Solitons - From Fibers to Photonic Crystals, (Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2003), pp. 212-248.
37. P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, A. Piskarskas, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, C. Conti, S. Trillo, "Spontaneously generated X-shaped light bullets," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 093904-1 (2003).
38. E. Recami, "On localized X-shaped superluminal solutions to Maxwell equations," Physica A 252, 586-610 (1998).
39. M. Piché, G. Rousseau, Ch. Varin, N. McCarthy, "Conical wave packets: their propagation speed and their longitudinal fields," Proc. SPIE 3611, 332-343 (1999).
40. I. Alexeev, K. Y. Kim, H. M. Milchberg, "Measurement of the superluminal group velocity of an ultrashort Bessel beam pulse," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 073901 (2002).
41. H. Sonajalg, M. Rätsep, P. Saari, "Demonstration of the Bessel-X-pulse propagating with strong lateral and longitudinal localization in a dispersive medium," Opt. Lett. 22, 310-312 (1997).
42. V. Kebbel, Untersuchungen zur Erzeugung und Propagation ultrakurzer optischer Bessel-Impulse, Doctoral Thesis, University Bremen, 2003 (submitted, in German).
43. R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, U. Neumann, A. Kummrow, E. T. J. Nibbering, M. Piché, G. Rousseau, M. Fortin, V. Kebbel, "Generation of ultrashort-pulse nondiffracting beams and X-waves with thin-film axicons," Ultrafast Phenomena XIII, Ed.: M. Murnane, N. F. Scherer, A. M. Weiner (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, Nov. 2002, pp. 247-249.
44. R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, U. Neumann, A. Kummrow, E. T. J. Nibbering, M. Rini, V. Kebbel, M. Piché, G. Rousseau, M. Fortin, "Femtosecond laser beam shaping with structured thin-film elements," Proc. SPIE 4833, 354-361 (2002).
45. R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, U. Griebner, U. Neumann, A. Kummrow, M. Rini, E.T.J. Nibbering, M. Piché, G. Rousseau, M. Fortin, "Spatio-temporal shaping and autocorrelation of optical few-cycle Bessel-X-pulses," Phys. Rev. A 67, 063 820 (2003).
46. R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, K. Reimann, G. Steinmeyer, V. Kebbel, Ultrashort-pulse wavefront autocorrelation, Opt. Lett. 28, 2399-2401 (2003).
47. nd ed, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996), pp. 55-61.
48. J. Zhang, P. R. Herman, Ch. Lauer, K. P. Chen, M. Wei, "157-nm laser-induced modification of fused-silica glasses," Proc. SPIE 4274, 125-132 (2001).
49. 2-laser ablation patterning of dielectric layers," Appl. Phys. A 72, 377-379 (2001).
50. P. L. Overfelt, C. S. Kenney, "Comparison of the propagation characteristics of Bessel, Bessel-Gauss, and Gaussian beams diffracted by a circular aperture," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8, 732-745 (1991).
51. Z. Jiang, Q. Lu, Z. Liu, "Propagation of apertured Bessel beams," Appl. Opt. 34, 7183-7185 (1995).
52. M. Nisoli, E. Priori, G. Sansone, S. Stagira, G. Cerullo, S. De Silvestri, C. Altucci, P. Villoresi, L. Poletto, M. Pascolini, G. Tondello, "High-brightness high-order harmonic generation by truncated Bessel beams in the sub-10-fs regime," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 033902 (2002).
53. S. Ruschin, "Modified Bessel nondiffracting beams," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11, 3224-3228 (1994).
54. M. Martínez-Corral, G. Saavedra, P. Andrés, F. Gori, "Analytical formulation of the axial behavior of apodized general Bessel beams," Opt. Commun. 169, 1-8 (1999).
55. C. Altucci, R. Bruzzese, C. de Lisio, M. Nisoli, S. Stagira, S. De Silvestri, L. Poletto, P. Villoresi, V. Tosa, K. Midorikawa, "Phase-matching analysis of high-order harmonics generated by truncated Bessel beams in the sub-10fs regime," ICOMP IX, 18-23 Oct. 2002, Elounda, Crete, Greek.