Fabrication of glass‐ceramic 3D micro‐optics by combining laser lithography and calcination

G Balčas, M Malinauskas, M Farsari… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This perspective is an overview of a recent direction in optical 3D printing, where
polymerization of crosslinkable materials and nanomaterial fillers can be guided to the final …

Fluid superscreening and polarization following in confined ferroelectric nematics

F Caimi, G Nava, S Fuschetto, L Lucchetti, P Paiè… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The recently discovered ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid-crystal phase exhibits a
spontaneous polarization field that is both orientationally fluid like a liquid crystal and large …

Advanced photonic and optofluidic devices fabricated in glass via femtosecond laser micromachining

S Piacentini, F Bragheri, G Corrielli… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Thanks to its unique properties, glass plays a fundamental role in science and technology,
especially in optics and photonics. For instance, its transparency has been exploited in the …

Femtosecond laser hybrid processing strategy of transparent hard and brittle materials

JW Tan, G Wang, GX Zhao, YC Hou, DR Sun… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With high hardness, high thermal stability, chemical inertness and excellent optoelectronic
properties, transparent hard and brittle materials have drawn significant attentions in frontier …

Enhanced visible photocatalytic performance of un-doped TiO2 nanoparticles thin films through modifying the substrate surface roughness

ZS Hosseini, F Haghparast, AA Masoudi… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Titanium oxide (TiO 2) has been widely utilized for application in environmental pollution
due to its unique properties. However, large bandgap (3.2 eV) and low surface area of bulk …

Laser-written vapor cells for chip-scale atomic sensing and spectroscopy

VG Lucivero, A Zanoni, G Corrielli, R Osellame… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report the fabrication of alkali-metal vapor cells using femtosecond laser machining. This
laser-written vapor-cell (LWVC) technology allows arbitrarily-shaped 3D interior volumes …

Low-loss optofluidic waveguides in fused silica enabled by spatially shaped femtosecond laser assisted etching combined with carbon dioxide laser irradiation

J Yu, J Xu, Q Dong, J Qi, J Chen, A Zhang… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
We demonstrate the fabrication of low-loss optofluidic waveguides encapsulated in fused
silica glass using femtosecond laser microfabrication followed by carbon dioxide laser …

Combined femtosecond laser glass microprocessing for liver-on-chip device fabrication

A Butkutė, T Jurkšas, T Baravykas, B Leber… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, lab-on-chip (LOC) devices are attracting more and more attention since they
show vast prospects for various biomedical applications. Usually, an LOC is a small device …

[HTML][HTML] Picotesla optically pumped magnetometer using a laser-written vapor cell with sub-mm cross section

A Zanoni, K Mouloudakis, MCD Tayler… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate a sensitive optically pumped magnetometer using rubidium vapor and 0.75
amg of nitrogen buffer gas in a sub-mm-width sensing channel excavated by femtosecond …

Structured-light-sheet imaging in an integrated optofluidic platform

P Paiè, G Calisesi, A Candeo, A Comi, F Sala… - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Heterogeneity investigation at the single-cell level reveals morphological and phenotypic
characteristics in cell populations. In clinical research, heterogeneity has important …