Extremely high-aspect-ratio ultrafast Bessel beam generation and stealth dicing of multimillimeter thick glass

We report on the development of an ultrafast beam shaper capable of generating Bessel beams of high cone angle that maintain a high intensity hot spot with subwavelength diameter over a propagation distance in excess of 8 mm. This generates a high intensity focal region with extremely high aspect ra...

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Autores: Meyer, Remi, Froehly, L., Giust, R., Del Hoyo Muñoz, Jesús, Furfaro, L., Billet, C., Courvoisier, F.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/115667
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115667
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:535
Field
Energy
Glass
Laser ablation
Nanochanels
Geometrical optics
Kerr effects
Bessel beam
Ultrafast lasers
Ultrafast optics
Óptica (Física)
2209 Óptica
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Sumario:We report on the development of an ultrafast beam shaper capable of generating Bessel beams of high cone angle that maintain a high intensity hot spot with subwavelength diameter over a propagation distance in excess of 8 mm. This generates a high intensity focal region with extremely high aspect ratio exceeding 10 000:1. The absence of intermediate focusing in the shaper allows for shaping very high energies, up to Joule levels. We demonstrate a proof of principle application of the Bessel beam shaper for stealth dicing of thick glass, up to 1 cm. We expect that this high energy Bessel beam shaper will have applications in several areas of high intensity laser physics.