Three-dimensional chiral microstructures fabricated by structured optical vortices in isotropic material

Jincheng Ni; Chaowei Wang; Chenchu Zhang; Yanlei Hu; Liang Yang; Zhaoxin Lao; Bing Xu; Jiawen Li; Dong Wu; Jiaru Chu

doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.11

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Three-dimensional chiral microstructures fabricated by structured optical vortices in isotropic material

Original Articles

- Three-dimensional chiral microstructures fabricated by structured optical vortices in isotropic material
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 3, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China
- Author bio：
  
  Y Hu, Email: huyl@ustc.edu.cn
  D Wu, Email: dongwu@ustc.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2017.11
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- Published：2017-09，
  
  Published Online：13 February 2017，
  
  Received：30 August 2016，
  
  Revised：18 January 2017，
  
  Accepted：09 February 2017
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Ni, J. C. et al. Three-dimensional chiral microstructures fabricated by structured optical vortices in isotropic material. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17011 (2017).
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Ni, J. C. et al. Three-dimensional chiral microstructures fabricated by structured optical vortices in isotropic material. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e17011 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2017.11.

摘要

Abstract

Optical vortices

a type of structured beam with helical phase wavefronts and 'doughnut'-shaped intensity distributions

have been used to fabricate chiral structures in metals and spiral patterns in anisotropic polarization-dependent azobenzene polymers. However

in isotropic polymers

the fabricated microstructures are typically confined to non-chiral cylindrical geometry due to the two-dimensional 'doughnut'-shaped intensity profile of the optical vortices. Here we develop a powerful strategy to realize chiral microstructures in isotropic material by coaxial interference of a vortex beam and a plane wave

which produces three-dimensional (3D) spiral optical fields. These coaxial interference beams are generated by designing contrivable holograms consisting of an azimuthal phase and an equiphase loaded on a liquid-crystal spatial light modulator. In isotropic polymers

3D chiral microstructures are achieved under illumination using coaxial interference femtosecond laser beams with their chirality controlled by the topological charge. Our further investigation reveals that the spiral lobes and chirality are caused by interfering patterns and helical phase wavefronts

respectively. This technique is simple

stable and easy to perform

and it offers broad applications in optical tweezers

optical communications and fast metamaterial fabrication.

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Keywords

chiral microstructurecoaxial interferenceoptical vortextwo-photon fabrication

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