The exciting properties of micro-and nano-patterned surfaces found in natural species hide
a virtually endless potential of technological ideas, opening new opportunities for innovation …

Over the past two decades, femtosecond laser-induced periodic structures (femtosecond-
LIPSs) have become ubiquitous in a variety of materials, including metals, semiconductors …

Since their first introduction in 2006, q-plates have found a constantly increasing number of
uses in diverse contexts, ranging from fundamental research on complex structured light …

We report on a new, single-step and scalable method to fabricate highly ordered, multi-
directional and complex surface structures that mimic the unique morphological features of …

Creation of patterns and structures on surfaces at the micro-and nano-scale is a field of
growing interest. Direct femtosecond laser surface structuring with a Gaussian-like beam …

With the aim of presenting the processes governing the Laser-Induced Periodic Surface
Structures (LIPSS), its main theoretical models have been reported. More emphasis is given …

Structured optical fields, such as cylindrical vector (CV) and orbital angular momentum
(OAM) modes, have attracted considerable attention due to their polarization singularities …

We present an approach for laser processing of chalcogenide glasses (CGs) using laser
fields with a spatially varying polarization distribution generated using a liquid crystal …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and surface-enhanced photoluminescence
(SEPL) are emerging as versatile widespread methods for biological, chemical, and physical …

Extensive research work has been carried out on the generation and application of laser-
induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS). LIPSS with a sub-wavelength period generated …