Journal
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
Volume 5, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201700342
Keywords
form birefringence; GeO2 glass; nanogratings; photonic applications; ultrafast lasers
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51132004]
- Guangdong Natural Science Foundation [S2011030001349, 2014A030306045]
- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics of the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Science
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy of East China Normal University, Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province
- China Scholarship Council
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/M029042/1]
- Ministry of Education and Science of Russia [14.Z50.31.0009]
- EPSRC [EP/M029042/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/M029042/1, 1580828] Funding Source: researchfish
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Nanostructuring in glass by ultrafast laser paves the way for integrated optics. In this paper, form birefringence induced by ultrafast laser direct writing in GeO2 glass is systematically investigated. It is shown that the pulse energy for maximum retardance in GeO2 glass is approximate to 65% lower than in fused silica. The induced retardance by laser scanning is two times higher than that by stationary irradiation under the same processing conditions. The optimum pulse duration for maximum retardance in GeO2 glass lies within sub-picosecond region, i.e., typically around 500 fs, while in fused silica it is in the picosecond regime at around 1-2 ps. A reversed polarization dependence of retardance at low pulse densities and low pulse repetition rates is observed in GeO2 glass. As a result, two optical applications including a radial polarization vortex converter and a computer-generated hologram are demonstrated in GeO2 glass by spatial manipulation of the optical axis of the locally induced form birefringence. The microengineering of optical properties of GeO2 glass by ultrafast laser direct writing may lead to new applications in near-/mid-infrared optics.
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