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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 23, Issue 10, Pages 12562-12572Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.012562
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Precise tailoring of optical vector beams is demonstrated, shaping their focal electric fields and used to create complex laser micropatterning on a metal surface. A Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) and a micro-structured S-waveplate were integrated with a picosecond laser system and employed to structure the vector fields into radial and azimuthal polarizations with and without a vortex phase wavefront as well as superposition states. Imprinting Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structures (LIPSS) elucidates the detailed vector fields around the focal region. In addition to clear azimuthal and radial plasmon surface structures, unique, variable logarithmic spiral micro-structures with a pitch Lambda similar to 1 mu, not observed previously, were imprinted on the surface, confirming unambiguously the complex 2D focal electric fields. We show clearly also how the Orbital Angular Momentum(OAM) associated with a helical wavefront induces rotation of vector fields along the optic axis of a focusing lens and confirmed by the observed surface micro-structures. (C)2015 Optical Society of America
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