TY - JOUR
T1 - Intense femtosecond shaped laser beams for writing extended structures inside transparent dielectrics
AU - Polynkin, Pavel
N1 - Funding Information:
The author acknowledges helpful discussions with Demetrios Christodoulides and Miroslav Kolesik. The preparation of this review article was supported by the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (U.S. AFOSR) through grants No. FA9550-12-1-0482, No. FA9550-12-1-0143, and No. FA9550-10-1-0561.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - We review recent results on the propagation and self-focusing of intense femtosecond laser pulses with shaped beam profiles in transparent dielectric media. At sufficiently high optical power, beam shaping seeds into the transverse modulation instability and results in the deterministic placement of intense laser filaments within the beam profile. Resulting spatial filament distributions may be utilized for writing complex extended structures inside transparent dielectrics. Specific examples of beam shapes we will discuss are Bessel beams, optical vortices, Bessel beams of higher order, and Airy beams.
AB - We review recent results on the propagation and self-focusing of intense femtosecond laser pulses with shaped beam profiles in transparent dielectric media. At sufficiently high optical power, beam shaping seeds into the transverse modulation instability and results in the deterministic placement of intense laser filaments within the beam profile. Resulting spatial filament distributions may be utilized for writing complex extended structures inside transparent dielectrics. Specific examples of beam shapes we will discuss are Bessel beams, optical vortices, Bessel beams of higher order, and Airy beams.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00339-013-8133-1
DO - 10.1007/s00339-013-8133-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84893807406
VL - 114
SP - 143
EP - 149
JO - Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing
JF - Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing
SN - 0947-8396
IS - 1
ER -