Characterization and control of peak intensity distribution at the focus of a spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser beam

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 9734-9748

  He, Fei ^a   Zeng, Bin ^a   Chu, Wei ^a   Ni, Jielei ^a   Sugioka, Koji ^b   Cheng, Ya ^a   Durfee, Charles G ^c  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

^c Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EXPERIMENTAL EXAMINATION; FEMTOSECOND LASER MICROMACHINING; FOCUSED FEMTOSECOND LASERS; OBJECTIVE LENS; PEAK INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PULSE DURATIONS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 84899001041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.009734     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. K. M. Davis, K. Miura, N. Sugimoto, and K. Hirao, "Writing waveguides in glass with a femtosecond laser," Opt. Lett. 21(21), 1729-1731 (1996
2. A. Marcinkevicius, S. Juodkazis, M. Watanabe, M. Miwa, S. Matsuo, H. Misawa, and J. Nishii, "Femtosecond laser-assisted three-dimensional microfabrication in silica," Opt. Lett. 26(5), 277-279 (2001
3. L. Sansoni, F. Sciarrino, G. Vallone, P. Mataloni, A. Crespi, R. Ramponi, and R. Osellame, "Polarization entangled state measurement on a chip," Phys. Rev. Lett. 105(20), 200503 (2010
4. W. Xiong, Y. S. Zhou, X. N. He, Y. Gao, M. Mahjouri-Samani, L. Jiang, T. Baldacchini, and Y. F. Lu, "Simultaneous additive and subtractive three-dimensional nanofabrication using integrated two-photon polymerization and multiphoton ablation," Light Sci. Appl. 1(4), e6 (2012
5. Y. Cheng, K. Sugioka, and K. Midorikawa, "Microfluidic laser embedded in glass by three-dimensional femtosecond laser microprocessing," Opt. Lett. 29(17), 2007-2009 (2004
6. F. Chen and J. R. Vazquez de Aldana, "Optical waveguides in crystalline dielectric materials produced by femtosecond-laser micromachining," Laser Photon. Rev. 8(2), 251-275 (2014
7. F. He, Y. Cheng, L. Qiao, C. Wang, Z. Xu, K. Sugioka, K. Midorikawa, and J. Wu, "Two-photon fluorescence excitation with a microlens fabricated on the fused silica chip by femtosecond laser micromachining," Appl. Phys. Lett. 96(4), 041108 (2010
8. K. Sugioka and Y. Cheng, "Femtosecond laser processing for optofluidic fabrication," Lab Chip 12(19), 3576-3589 (2012
9. Y. Liao, J. Song, E. Li, Y. Luo, Y. Shen, D. Chen, Y. Cheng, Z. Xu, K. Sugioka, and K. Midorikawa, "Rapid prototyping of three-dimensional microfluidic mixers in glass by femtosecond laser direct writing," Lab Chip 12(4), 746-749 (2012
10. R. R. Gattass and E. Mazur, "Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials," Nat. Photonics 2(4), 219-225 (2008
11. Y. Shimotsuma, P. G. Kazansky, J. Qiu, and K. Hirao, "Self-organized nanogratings in glass irradiated by ultrashort light pulses," Phys. Rev. Lett. 91(24), 247405 (2003
12. V. R. Bhardwaj, E. Simova, P. P. Rajeev, C. Hnatovsky, R. S. Taylor, D. M. Rayner, and P. B. Corkum, "Optically produced arrays of planar nanostructures inside fused silica," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96(5), 057404 (2006
13. S. Kanehira, J. Si, J. Qiu, K. Fujita, and K. Hirao, "Periodic nanovoid structures via femtosecond laser irradiation," Nano Lett. 5(8), 1591-1595 (2005
14. Y. Liu, M. Shimizu, B. Zhu, Y. Dai, B. Qian, J. Qiu, Y. Shimotsuma, K. Miura, and K. Hirao, "Micromodification of element distribution in glass using femtosecond laser irradiation," Opt. Lett. 34(2), 136-138 (2009
15. S. K. Sundaram and E. Mazur, "Inducing and probing non-thermal transitions in semiconductors using femtosecond laser pulses," Nat. Mater. 1(4), 217-224 (2002
16. P. G. Kazansky, W. Yang, E. Bricchi, J. Bovatsek, A. Arai, Y. Shimotsuma, K. Miura, and K. Hirao, ""Quill" writing with ultrashort light pulses in transparent materials," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90(15), 151120 (2007
17. W. Yang, P. G. Kazansky, and Y. P. Svirko, "Non-reciprocal ultrafast laser writing," Nat. Photonics 2(2), 99-104 (2008
18. W. Yang, P. G. Kazansky, Y. Shimotsuma, M. Sakakura, K. Miura, and K. Hirao, "Ultrashort-pulse laser calligraphy," Appl. Phys. Lett. 93(17), 171109 (2008
19. P. S. Salter and M. J. Booth, "Dynamic control of directional asymmetry observed in ultrafast laser direct writing," Appl. Phys. Lett. 101(14), 141109 (2012
20. R. Stoian, M. Boyle, A. Thoss, A. Rosenfeld, G. Korn, I. V. Hertel, and E. E. B. Campbell, "Laser ablation of dielectrics with temporally shaped femtosecond pulses," Appl. Phys. Lett. 80(3), 353-355 (2002
21. Y. Cheng, K. Sugioka, K. Midorikawa, M. Masuda, K. Toyoda, M. Kawachi, and K. Shihoyama, "Control of the cross-sectional shape of a hollow microchannel embedded in photostructurable glass by use of a femtosecond laser," Opt. Lett. 28(1), 55-57 (2003
22. C. Mauclair, A. Mermillod-Blondin, N. Huot, E. Audouard, and R. Stoian, "Ultrafast laser writing of homogeneous longitudinal waveguides in glasses using dynamic wavefront correction," Opt. Express 16(8), 5481-5492 (2008
23. Y. Shimotsuma, M. Sakakura, P. G. Kazansky, M. Beresna, J. Qiu, K. Miura, and K. Hirao, "Ultrafast manipulation of self-assembled form birefringence in glass," Adv. Mater. 22(36), 4039-4043 (2010
24. G. Zhu, J. van Howe, M. E. Durst, W. Zipfel, and C. Xu, "Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing of femtosecond pulses," Opt. Express 13(6), 2153-2159 (2005
25. D. Oron, E. Tal, and Y. Silberberg, "Scanningless depth-resolved microscopy," Opt. Express 13(5), 1468-1476 (2005
26. F. He, H. Xu, Y. Cheng, J. Ni, H. Xiong, Z. Xu, K. Sugioka, and K. Midorikawa, "Fabrication of microfluidic channels with a circular cross section using spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser pulses," Opt. Lett. 35(7), 1106-1108 (2010
27. F. He, Y. Cheng, J. Lin, J. Ni, Z. Xu, K. Sugioka, and K. Midorikawa, "Independent control of aspect ratios in the axial and lateral cross sections of a focal spot for three-dimensional femtosecond laser micromachining," New J. Phys. 13(8), 083014 (2011
28. B. Zeng, W. Chu, H. Gao, W. Liu, G. Li, H. Zhang, J. Yao, J. Ni, S. L. Chin, Y. Cheng, and Z. Xu, "Enhancement of peak intensity in a filament core with spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser pulses," Phys. Rev. A 84(6), 063819 (2011
29. D. N. Vitek, D. E. Adams, A. Johnson, P. S. Tsai, S. Backus, C. G. Durfee, D. Kleinfeld, and J. A. Squier, "Temporally focused femtosecond laser pulses for low numerical aperture micromachining through optically transparent materials," Opt. Express 18(17), 18086-18094 (2010
30. D. Kim and P. T. C. So, "High-throughput three-dimensional lithographic microfabrication," Opt. Lett. 35(10), 1602-1604 (2010
31. D. N. Vitek, E. Block, Y. Bellouard, D. E. Adams, S. Backus, D. Kleinfeld, C. G. Durfee, and J. A. Squier, "Spatio-temporally focused femtosecond laser pulses for nonreciprocal writing in optically transparent materials," Opt. Express 18(24), 24673-24678 (2010
32. C. G. Durfee, M. Greco, E. Block, D. Vitek, and J. A. Squier, "Intuitive analysis of space-time focusing with double-ABCD calculation," Opt. Express 20(13), 14244-14259 (2012
33. J. W. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics (Roberts and Company, 2005
34. S. Akturk, X. Gu, E. Zeek, and R. Trebino, "Pulse-front tilt caused by spatial and temporal chirp," Opt. Express 12(19), 4399-4410 (2004
35. K. Itoh, W. Watanabe, S. Nolte, and C. Schaffer, "Ultrafast processes for bulk modification of transparent materials," MRS Bull. 31, 620-625 (2006
36. E. Papagiakoumou, F. Anselmi, A. Begue, V. de Sars, J. Glückstad, E. Y. Isacoff, and V. Emiliani, "Scanless two-photon excitation of channelrhodopsin-2," Nat. Methods 7(10), 848-854 (2010
37. B. K. Andrasfalvy, B. V. Zemelman, J. Tang, and A. Vaziri, "Two-photon single-cell optogenetic control of neuronal activity by sculpted light," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107(26), 11981-11986 (2010
38. S. Backus, C. G. Durfee, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn, "High power ultrafast lasers," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 69(3), 1207-1223 (1998
39. M. E. Durst, G. Zhu, and C. Xu, "Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing for axial scanning," Opt. Express 14(25), 12243-12254 (2006
40. M. E. Durst, G. Zhu, and C. Xu, "Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing in nonlinear microscopy," Opt. Commun. 281(7), 1796-1805 (2008
41. B. Chatel, J. Degert, and B. Girard, "Role of quadratic and cubic spectral phases in ladder climbing with ultrashort pulses," Phys. Rev. A 70(5), 053414 (2004).