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Rapid fabrication of optical volume gratings in Foturan glass by femtosecond laser micromachining

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We report on rapid fabrication of optical volume gratings in Foturan glass using a modulated femtosecond laser focused with cylindrical lenses. An optical volume grating with an area of 2 mm ×3 mm and ∼2 mm thickness can be achieved within 10 min by use of this method. Optical micrography confirms the volume nature of the gratings and shows that they consist of 10 μm-thickness planes with a period of 15 μm. The diffraction efficiency is examined to be ∼56%. The limitations and future implementations of the fabricated volume gratings are discussed.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 800-211, Shanghai, 201800, China

    Fei He, Haiyi Sun, Jian Xu, Yang Liao, Zenghui Zhou, Ya Cheng & Zhizhan Xu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China

    Min Huang

  3. Extreme Photonics Group, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    Koji Sugioka & Katsumi Midorikawa

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He, F., Sun, H., Huang, M. et al. Rapid fabrication of optical volume gratings in Foturan glass by femtosecond laser micromachining. Appl. Phys. A 97, 853–857 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-009-5338-4

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