Direct Femtosecond Laser Surface Structuring with Optical Vortex Beams Generated by a q-plate

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Creation of patterns and structures on surfaces at the micro- and nano-scale is a field of growing interest. Direct femtosecond laser surface structuring with a Gaussian-like beam intensity profile has already distinguished itself as a versatile method to fabricate surface structures on metals and semiconductors. Here we present an approach for direct femtosecond laser surface structuring based on optical vortex beams with different spatial distributions of the state of polarization, which are easily generated by means of a q-plate. The different states of an optical vortex beam carrying an orbital angular momentum ℓ = ±1 are used to demonstrate the fabrication of various regular surface patterns on silicon. The spatial features of the regular rippled and grooved surface structures are correlated with the state of polarization of the optical vortex beam. Moreover, scattered surface wave theory approach is used to rationalize the dependence of the surface structures on the local state of the laser beam characteristics (polarization and fluence). The present approach can be further extended to fabricate even more complex and unconventional surface structures by exploiting the possibilities offered by femtosecond optical vector fields.

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Nivas, J. J. J., He, S., Rubano, A., Vecchione, A., Paparo, D., Marrucci, L., … Amoruso, S. (2015). Direct Femtosecond Laser Surface Structuring with Optical Vortex Beams Generated by a q-plate. Scientific Reports, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17929

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