Femtosecond laser fabrication of hybrid micro-optical elements and their integration on the fiber tip

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7716, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Malinauskas, Mangirdas ^a   Gilbergs, Holger ^b   Žukauskas, Albertas ^a   Belazaras, Kastytis ^a   Purlys, Vytautas ^a   Rutkauskas, Marius ^a   Bičkauskaite, Gabija ^a   Momot, Andrej ^a   Paipulas, Domas ^a   Gadonas, Roaldas ^a   Juodkazis, Saulius ^c   Piskarskas, Algis ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D nano structuring; Control of refractive index; Femtosecond laser polymerization; Fiber optics; Micro optics; Nanofabrication; Solid immersion lenses

Indexed keywords

COVER GLASS; DIRECT WRITE; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER POLYMERIZATION; FIBER TIP; FILLING RATIO; FRESNEL LENS; LASER POLYMERIZATION; MICRO-OPTICAL ELEMENTS; MIN-MAX; NANO-STRUCTURING; NANOFABRICATION; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FUNCTION; SILICON-BASED; SOLID IMMERSION; SOLID IMMERSION LENSES; SPECTRAL REGION; UV EXPOSURE; VISIBLE RANGE; WOODPILE STRUCTURE;

FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; GLASS; LIGHT REFRACTION; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TITRATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ZIRCONIUM;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 78449270352     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.854396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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