Tailoring chiral optical properties by femtosecond laser direct writing in silica

Jiafeng Lu; Jing Tian; Bertrand Poumellec; Enrique Garcia-Caurel; Razvigor Ossikovski; Xianglong Zeng; Matthieu Lancry

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- Tailoring chiral optical properties by femtosecond laser direct writing in silica
- Tailoring chiral optical properties by femtosecond laser direct writing in silica
- 光：科学与应用 2023年12卷第3期页码：366-378
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay, Université Paris Saclay, Orsay 91405, France
  2.Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  3.LPICM, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau 91128, France
- Author bio：
  
  Matthieu Lancry (matthieu.lancry@universite-paris-saclay.fr)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-023-01080-y
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- 纸质出版日期：2023-3-31，
  
  网络出版日期：2023-2-20，
  
  收稿日期：2022-4-25，
  
  修回日期：2023-1-10，
  
  录用日期：2023-1-15
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Tailoring chiral optical properties by femtosecond laser direct writing in silica[J]. 光：科学与应用, 2023,12(3):366-378.

Lu, J.F. et al. Tailoring chiral optical properties by femtosecond laser direct writing in silica. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 366-378 (2023).
Tailoring chiral optical properties by femtosecond laser direct writing in silica[J]. 光：科学与应用, 2023,12(3):366-378. DOI： 10.1038/s41377-023-01080-y.

Lu, J.F. et al. Tailoring chiral optical properties by femtosecond laser direct writing in silica. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 366-378 (2023). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-023-01080-y.

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Abstract

An object that possesses chirality

that is

having its mirror image not overlayed on itself by rotation and translation

can provide a different optical response to a left- or right-handed circular polarized light. Chiral nanostructures may exhibit polarization-selective optical properties that can be controlled for micro-to-nano optical element engineering. An attractive way to induce such complex nanostructures in three-dimension in glass is femtosecond laser direct writing. However

the mechanism of femtosecond laser induced chirality remains to be unveiled due to complex physical and chemical processes occurring during the ultrashort light-matter interaction. Here

a phenomenological model is proposed and is built on two-layers phase shifters to account for this laser-induced optical chirality in an initially achiral material (silica glass). This model is based on the observation that femtosecond laser induced nanogratings own two principal contributions to its aggregate birefringent response: a form and a stress-related one. By refining this formalism

a multilayer approach is developed to imprint on demand optical rotation. Values up to +/-60° at 550 nm within an optimal 80 μm thickness in silica glass are possible

corresponding to the highest value in a glass to date. These results provide new insights of circular-optical control in micro-nano optical manufacturing and open new opportunities for photonics applications.

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