Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials

RR Gattass, E Mazur - Nature photonics, 2008 - nature.com
Femtosecond laser micromachining can be used either to remove materials or to change a
material's properties, and can be applied to both absorptive and transparent substances …

Femtosecond laser microstructuring: an enabling tool for optofluidic lab‐on‐chips

R Osellame, HJWM Hoekstra… - Laser & Photonics …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides an overview of the rather new field concerning the applications of
femtosecond laser microstructuring of glass to optofluidics. Femtosecond lasers have …

Fabrication of microchannels: a review

S Prakash, S Kumar - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Microchannels are primarily used in biomedical devices and microfluidic applications.
Fabrication of microchannels has always been a tough task using conventional …

Three-dimensional Mach-Zehnder interferometer in a microfluidic chip for spatially-resolved label-free detection

A Crespi, Y Gu, B Ngamsom, HJWM Hoekstra… - Lab on a Chip, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Ultrafast laser writing of waveguides in glasses is a very flexible and simple method for
direct on-chip integration of photonic devices. In this work we present a monolithic …

High-throughput microchannel fabrication in fused silica by temporally shaped femtosecond laser Bessel-beam-assisted chemical etching

Z Wang, L Jiang, X Li, A Wang, Z Yao, K Zhang, Y Lu - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We proposed combining temporally shaped (double-pulse train) laser pulses with spatially
shaped (Bessel beam) laser pulses. By using a temporally shaped femtosecond laser …

Femtosecond laser fabricated monolithic chip for optical trap** and stretching of single cells

N Bellini, KC Vishnubhatla, F Bragheri, L Ferrara… - Optics …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We report on the fabrication by a femtosecond laser of an optofluidic device for optical
trap** and stretching of single cells. Versatility and three-dimensional capabilities of this …

Microfluidic wearable electrochemical sweat sensors for health monitoring

B Ramachandran, YC Liao - Biomicrofluidics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Research on remote health monitoring through wearable sensors has attained popularity in
recent decades mainly due to aging population and expensive health care services …

Integration of optical waveguides and microfluidic channels both fabricated by femtosecond laser irradiation

R Osellame, V Maselli, RM Vazquez, R Ramponi… - Applied physics …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
A femtosecond laser is used to fabricate both microfluidic channels and high quality optical
waveguides, intersecting each other on a single glass substrate. Fluorescence in fluids …

A fast and simple method to fabricate circular microchannels in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)

M Abdelgawad, C Wu, WY Chien, WR Geddie… - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
A simple method to fabricate circular microchannels in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is
presented. A coating of liquid PDMS is applied on the walls of rectangular microchannels …

Shape control of microchannels fabricated in fused silica by femtosecond laser irradiation and chemical etching

KC Vishnubhatla, N Bellini, R Ramponi, G Cerullo… - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report on the fabrication of shape-controlled microchannels in fused silica by
femtosecond laser irradiation at 600 kHz repetition rate followed by chemical etching. The …