We present a tabletop coherent imaging system at 13.5 nm driven by an ultrafast 75 W fiber laser, achieving a record imaging-speed of 5 Mpix/h, enabling detailed chemical composition mapping for samples from microbiol...
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The process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in χ(2)-materials, in which a pump (P) photon of wavelength λP can split into a pair of entangled signal (S) and idler (I) photons of lower energy, is an ...
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The possibility to permanently modify transparent materials and inscribe waveguiding structures with ultrashort laser pulses is well established for dielectrics such as glasses. Such a technique discloses a versatile ...
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(纸本)9798350345995
The possibility to permanently modify transparent materials and inscribe waveguiding structures with ultrashort laser pulses is well established for dielectrics such as glasses. Such a technique discloses a versatile set of applications, ranging from telecommunications to photonic quantum circuits. Attempts to transfer this 3D ultrafast inscription technique to the most important material in the microelectronics industry, silicon, failed so far for a transverse inscription strategy.
For high power fiber amplifiers with excellent beam quality double clad fibers are an essential tool. They consist of a signal core section, which is doped with a laser active medium and typically centered, and a much...
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We report on processing the bulk of silicon with infrared ultrashort laser pulses. The localized energy deposition and resulting material modifications enable various applications, from the inscription of waveguides t...
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Power scaling of fiber lasers is hindered by nonlinear and thermal limitations. The most dramatic limiting effect is transverse mode instability (TMI). It manifests as fluctuations between the fundamental mode (FM) of...
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Periodic structures along the propagation direction of light yields the very well known Bragg reflection. When the wavelength is away from any Bragg resonance, in first approximation optical beams perceive the average...
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(纸本)9798350345995
Periodic structures along the propagation direction of light yields the very well known Bragg reflection. When the wavelength is away from any Bragg resonance, in first approximation optical beams perceive the average value of the refractive index. This idea is used, for example, in realizing the so called segmented or Bragg waveguides, once the refractive index is free to vary also across the transverse direction. Following this model, light should freely diffract if the average value of the refractive index is uniform across the wavefront, see Fig. 1(a). The above conclusion, even if quite appealing, is factually wrong due to the emergence of an additional phase contribution due to the Kapitza effect: the local transverse gradient induces a modulation of the transverse wave vector; when the longitudinal average of the effective kinetic energy (thus involving the square of the transverse wave vector) is computed, a longitudinally-independent effective potential emerges. In agreement with the physical origin of the Kapitza effect, the potential is proportional to the square of the modulation period and to the square of the transverse derivative of the refractive index. We already experimentally demonstrated the existence of the Kapitza guiding using synthetic lattice in fiber loops [1]. In this contribution we aim to extend the Kapitza confinement to the case of a point-dependent delay applied to the periodic potential, see Fig. 1(b). Physically speaking, a local gradient is now present even if the amplitude of the periodic oscillation does not vary on the transverse direction [2]. The new contribution to the delay can be interpreted as a gauge fie1d [3], [4] due to the local shifting of the propagation coordinate, providing in turn a new term in the Kapitza potential proportional to the square of the delay derivative. We confirmed the existence of this new way to manipulate waves using BPM numerical simulations and experiments in fiber loops using trains of pulses,
We report on processing the bulk of silicon with infrared ultrashort laser pulses. The localized energy deposition and resulting material modifications enable various applications, from the inscription of waveguides t...
Metasurfaces offer promising possibilities for emerging photonic applications like see-through, near-eye displays. Vistec Electron Beam lithography systems with variable shaped beam (VSB) and cell projection (CP) tech...
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Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a second-order nonlinear optical process that is not allowed in media with inversion symmetry. However, due to the broken symmetry at the surface, surface SHG still occurs, but is g...
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