Advances in fabrication of micro-optical components by femtosecond laser with etching technology

JX Zheng, KS Tian, JY Qi, MR Guo, XQ Liu - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
With advantages of small size, light weight, flexible design, and easy mass production, micro-
optical components of hard materials have a wide range of potential applications in artificial …

Photonic angular momentum: progress and perspectives

A Forbes, S Ramachandran, Q Zhan - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Although the existence of photonic angular momentum is imbedded in Maxwell's equations,
the full picture of its intricate connections was slow to emerge. Early work on polarization …

Femtosecond-laser-assisted high-aspect-ratio nanolithography in lithium niobate

T Wang, X Cheng, X Li, J Ma, S Yan, X Hu, K Qi, W Fan… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the successful fabrication of high-aspect-ratio lithium niobate (LN) nanostructures
by using femtosecond-laser-assisted chemical etching. In this technique, a 1 kHz …

Nanofabrication of Lithium Niobate Anti‐Reflective Subwavelength Structures for High Power Mid‐Infrared Lasers

JX Zheng, XQ Liu, KS Tian, HY Li… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium niobate (LN) crystal with anti‐reflective subwavelength structures (ASSs) has great
applications in high‐power tunable optical parametric oscillator (OPO) lasers. However, it is …

The fabrication of high-performance diffraction gratings via vibration-assisted UV nanoimprinting lithography

Y Gu, Y Zhang, J Lin, H Zhao, H Ma, H Yao… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the aim of improving the performance of diffraction gratings, a piezoelectric-driven
vibration-assisted UV nanoimprint method is proposed for use in the fabrication of diffraction …

Femtosecond laser assisted selective etching of microchannels in lithium niobate

D Nwatu, D Kip, K Hasse - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Here, we report on the fabrication of cm-long microchannels in LiNbO_3 by selective etching
of femtosecond laser inscribed tracks using hydrofluoric acid. We achieved a 1? cm long …

[HTML][HTML] Ferroelectric domain engineering of lithium niobate

JJ Chakkoria, A Dubey, A Mitchell… - Opto-Electronic Advances, 2025 - oejournal.org
Lithium niobate (LN) has remained at the forefront of academic research and industrial
applications due to its rich material properties, which include second-order nonlinear optic …

Customized micron-scale waveguide-grating structure for vortex laser emission in Tm: YLF processed by femtosecond laser direct writing

Z Chen, Y **ong, X Sun, Y Jia, F Chen… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We report a micron-scale tailored waveguide-grating device designed for vortex laser
generation in the Tm: YLF crystal inscribed by femtosecond laser direct writing (FLDW). The …

Femtosecond‐laser micromachining fork gratings in LN crystal with different mechanisms

J Liu, H Zhang, S Ai, Q Yang… - Microwave and Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we used femtosecond‐laser direct writing to fabricate two kinds of modified
structures with opposite refractive‐index changes to build fork‐grating configurations in z …

Second harmonic generation of visible vortex laser based on a waveguide-grating emitter in LBO

Z Chen, H Liu, Q Lu, J Lv, Y Jia, F Chen - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we propose a practical solution to visible vortex laser emission at 532 nm based
on second harmonic generation (SHG) in a well-designed waveguide-grating structure …