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Advanced Laser Fabrication of Optical Materials and Their Applications

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 401

Special Issue Editor

Laser Research Center, Vilnius University, 10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: development of femtosecond laser microfabrication techniques; multiphoton polymerizaion; selective glass etching; microoptic and photonic elements

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Femtosecond lasers became a popular and available tool, not only in the scientific laboratories, but also in industry. Due to their unique properties, they are often chosen in the microfabrication field, allowing all kinds of microstructures, previously unobtainable using other fabrication methods.

Femtosecond laser microfabrication in general covers a broad range of technologies, especially the direct laser writing technologies, where the microstructures are created in a point-by-point manner, scanning the sample in respect to the focused laser beam or vice versa. At the focal region, the material of the sample is modified. The type of modification depends on the material and laser beam parameters and often describes the name of the technique. For example, if the sample is a droplet of a photopolymer and the laser pulse energies are relatively low, then we get a multiphoton polymerization technique. If the sample is a piece of fused silica glass and we add a wet etching post processing step, then we obtain a selective glass etching technique. Multiphoton polymerization, selective glass etching, refractive index inscription into a bulk of transparent materials are just a few examples of the femtosecond laser-assisted microfabrication techniques. Although the result of these techniques is different, quite often it has the same advantage—the resulting microstructures are highly precise—nearly any shape of 2D or 3D objects with high resolution reaching even well below one micron. Such properties are very attractive for the fabrication of various kinds of optical and photonic devices and their circuits. 

This Special Issue aims to cover original research works and reviews on the laser microfabrication of optical and photonic devices, the enhancement of their fabrication or postprocessing technologies, development of innovative optical microstructures and their applications.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit original papers, short communications and reviews for the Special Issue "Advanced Laser Fabrication of Optical Materials and Their Applications".

Dr. Vytautas Purlys
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Laser microfabrication
  • Microoptics
  • Photonics
  • Direct laser writing
  • Multiphoton polymerization
  • Selective glass etching
  • Integrated devices

Published Papers

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