Polarization-dependent ablation of silicon using tightly focused femtosecond laser vortex pulses. Academic Article

abstract

• We demonstrate experimentally that, in a tight focusing geometry, circularly polarized femtosecond laser vortex pulses ablate material differently depending on the handedness of light. This effect offers an additional degree of freedom to control the shape and size of laser-machined structures on a subwavelength scale.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Hnatovsky, C., Shvedov, V. G., Shostka, N., Rode, A. V., & Krolikowski, W.

citation count

• 73

complete list of authors

• Hnatovsky, Cyril||Shvedov, Vladlen G||Shostka, Natalia||Rode, Andrei V||Krolikowski, Wieslaw

publication date

• January 2012

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Letters  Journal

keywords

• 0205 Optical Physics

PubMed Central ID

• 22854475

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OL.37.000226

start page

• 226

end page

• 228

volume

• 37

issue

• 2