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  • Open Access
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Addressing the stability requirements of photonic integrated devices operating over wide temperature ranges, this work achieves controlled fabrication of femtosecond-laser direct-written Type II double-line waveguides and Type III depressed-cladding...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,706 Views
14 Pages

Developments of Waveguide Lasers by Femtosecond Laser Direct–Writing Technology

  • Yang Zhang,
  • Boyan Yu,
  • Zihao Zhang,
  • Xinghao Duan and
  • Junli Wang

28 August 2024

Waveguide lasers have the advantages of miniature and compact structure and have broad application prospects in photonic integration and on–chip laboratories. The development of femtosecond laser direct–writing technology makes the proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,486 Views
11 Pages

Photosensitivity of Infrared Glasses under Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing for mid-IR Applications

  • Pierre Delullier,
  • Laurent Calvez,
  • Guillaume Druart,
  • Florence De La Barrière,
  • Christophe Humbert,
  • Bertrand Poumellec and
  • Matthieu Lancry

1 September 2022

Chalcogenide glasses are increasingly being developed for photonic applications, particularly in the field of mid-infrared optical imaging. In this paper, we study the photosensitivity of one chalcogenide to direct femtosecond laser writing and its p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,244 Views
22 Pages

A Brief Review on Nonlinear Photonic Crystals Induced by Direct Femtosecond Laser Writing

  • Yaolan Tian,
  • Qingbo Li,
  • Lili Yan,
  • Xiangdong Cao and
  • Xian Zhao

Direct femtosecond laser writing or inscription is a useful technique, and it has been employed to engineer various materials in many applications including nonlinear photonic crystals, which are of periodically patterned second-order nonlinearity to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,210 Views
9 Pages

Fabrication of Large-Core Multicore Fiber Bragg Gratings Based on Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing Technology

  • Xinda Lu,
  • Rong Zhao,
  • Chenhui Gao,
  • Xinyu Ye,
  • Qiushi Qin,
  • Hao Li,
  • Zhixian Li,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Zilun Chen and
  • Zefeng Wang

We demonstrate the fabrication of the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) in a self-developed Yb-doped seven-core fiber using two femtosecond laser direct writing methods: a grating array inscription method and a plane-by-plane inscription method. The array fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,255 Views
12 Pages

On the Formation of Nanogratings in Commercial Oxide Glasses by Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing

  • Qiong Xie,
  • Maxime Cavillon,
  • Diego Pugliese,
  • Davide Janner,
  • Bertrand Poumellec and
  • Matthieu Lancry

29 August 2022

Nanogratings (NGs) are self-assembled subwavelength and birefringent nanostructures created by femtosecond laser direct writing (FLDW) in glass, which are of high interest for photonics, sensing, five-dimensional (5D) optical data storage, or microfl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,432 Views
12 Pages

The femtosecond-laser-writing technique provides a flexible method for fabrication of nonlinear photonic crystals in three dimensions, providing structures that enable efficient complex nonlinear wave interactions and modulation for applications incl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,891 Views
17 Pages

Regular Periodic Surface Structures on Indium Tin Oxide Film Efficiently Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing with a Cylindrical Lens

  • Long Chen,
  • Jian Yang,
  • Qilin Jiang,
  • Kaiqiang Cao,
  • Jukun Liu,
  • Tianqing Jia,
  • Zhenrong Sun and
  • Hongxing Xu

22 July 2022

Regular laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) were efficiently fabricated on indium tin oxide (ITO) films by femtosecond laser direct writing with a cylindrical lens. It was found that randomly distributed nanoparticles and high spatial f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,005 Views
15 Pages

Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing of Gradient Index Fresnel Lens in GeS2-Based Chalcogenide Glass for Imaging Applications

  • Pierre Delullier,
  • Guillaume Druart,
  • Florence De La Barrière,
  • Laurent Calvez and
  • Matthieu Lancry

28 April 2022

Chalcogenide glasses have attracted growing interest for their potential to meet the demands of photonic applications in the Mid-Wavelength InfraRed (MWIR) and Long-Wavelength InfraRed (LWIR) transmission windows. In this work, we investigated the ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,583 Views
16 Pages

16 August 2024

In this paper, using laser direct writing technology, a femtosecond laser was used to process a periodic grating structure on a 99.99% tungsten target. The specific parameters of the laser are as follows: a center wavelength of 800 nm, pulse width of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,131 Views
7 Pages

17 June 2019

We have fabricated Cu-based micropatterns in an ambient environment using femtosecond laser direct writing to reduce a glyoxylic acid Cu complex spin-coated onto a glass substrate. To do this, we scanned a train of focused femtosecond laser pulses ov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,974 Views
8 Pages

High-Efficiency Fabrication of Geometric Phase Elements by Femtosecond-Laser Direct Writing

  • Shuai Xu,
  • Hua Fan,
  • Si-Jia Xu,
  • Zhen-Ze Li,
  • Yuhao Lei,
  • Lei Wang and
  • Jun-Feng Song

1 September 2020

The nanoresolution of geometric phase elements for visible wavelengths calls for a flexible technology with high throughout and free from vacuum. In this article, we propose a high-efficiency and simple manufacturing method for the fabrication of geo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,415 Views
11 Pages

Pulse-Propagation Modeling and Experiment for Femtosecond-Laser Writing of Waveguide in Nd:YAG

  • Tao Feng,
  • Pankaj K. Sahoo,
  • Francisco R. Arteaga-Sierra,
  • Christophe Dorrer and
  • Jie Qiao

20 August 2019

In this work, unidirectional pulse propagation equation (UPPE) modeling is performed to study the nonlinear laser-mater interaction in silicon and Nd:Y3Al5O12 (Nd:YAG) crystals. The simulation results are validated with reported experimental results...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,690 Views
11 Pages

15 December 2020

Integrated photonic quantum chip provides a promising platform to perform quantum computation, quantum simulation, quantum metrology and quantum communication. Femtosecond laser direct writing (FLDW) is a potential technique to fabricate various inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,026 Views
7 Pages

Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing of Optical Overpass

  • Xiaochuan Ding,
  • Yao Zhao,
  • Ali Hassan,
  • Yunlu Sun,
  • Zhishan Hou,
  • Wei Xue and
  • Yu Cao

21 July 2022

With the rapid increase in information density, problems such as signal crosstalk and crossover restrict the further expansion of chip integration levels and packaging density. Based on this, a novel waveguide structure—photonic jumper wire&mda...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,100 Views
5 Pages

Direct Femtosecond Laser Writing of Micro-Optical Components

  • Alessandra Nardini,
  • Rebeca Martínez Vázquez and
  • Behjat Sadat Kariman

4 October 2025

Direct femtosecond laser writing (DLW), also known as two-photon polymerization (2PP), emerged as a true 3D micro/nano-structuring method in 1997 when Mauro and co-workers first demonstrated infrared femtosecond laser photopolymerization of a UV-cura...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,135 Views
25 Pages

Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing of Flexible Electronic Devices: A Mini Review

  • Shutong Wang,
  • Junjie Yang,
  • Guoliang Deng and
  • Shouhuan Zhou

24 January 2024

By virtue of its narrow pulse width and high peak power, the femtosecond pulsed laser can achieve high-precision material modification, material additive or subtractive, and other forms of processing. With additional good material adaptability and pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,508 Views
17 Pages

Color Centers Enabled by Direct Femto-Second Laser Writing in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

  • Stefania Castelletto,
  • Jovan Maksimovic,
  • Tomas Katkus,
  • Takeshi Ohshima,
  • Brett C. Johnson and
  • Saulius Juodkazis

31 December 2020

Color centers in silicon carbide are relevant for applications in quantum technologies as they can produce single photon sources or can be used as spin qubits and in quantum sensing applications. Here, we have applied femtosecond laser writing in sil...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,057 Views
13 Pages

12 May 2023

Micro-optics based on the artificial adjustment of physical dimensions, such as the phase, polarization, and wavelength of light, constitute the basis of contemporary information optoelectronic technology. As the main means of optical integration, it...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,208 Views
7 Pages

Hollow Channel Formation inside Sodium Aluminoborate Glass by Femtosecond Laser Writing and Distilled Water Etching

  • Sergey Fedotov,
  • Alexey Lipatiev,
  • Tatiana Lipateva,
  • Sergey Lotarev and
  • Vladimir Sigaev

23 September 2021

Recently, the effect of nanograting formation was demonstrated for binary sodium borate glass with the possibility of data storage with an enhanced level of security. The obvious disadvantage of such glass is poor chemical stability, which limits rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,414 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2022

In this paper, a femtosecond laser removal model of PMMA was built, and the surface primary and secondary microstructures of PMMA were fabricated. The surface morphology and wettability of the microstructures were measured and analyzed by an ultra-de...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,572 Views
10 Pages

Preparation of Antireflection Microstructures on ZnSe Crystal by Femtosecond Burst Bessel Direct Laser Writing

  • Sikun Zhou,
  • Junjie Yang,
  • Sha Wang,
  • Shutong Wang,
  • Guoliang Deng and
  • Shouhuan Zhou

In this work, we fabricated the antireflection microstructures (ARMs) on ZnSe surfaces using a femtosecond Bessel direct laser writing in burst mode. The morphology and transmittance performance of ARMs with different single-pulse energies (from 200...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,874 Views
12 Pages

22 February 2024

A femtosecond laser raster-type in situ repetitive direct writing technique was used for the fabrication of anti-reflective microhole structures in Germanium (Ge) in the visible near-infrared range (300–1800 nm). This technique builds a layer o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,627 Views
18 Pages

Fast Growth of Multi-Phase MoOx Synthesized by Laser Direct Writing Using Femtosecond Pulses

  • Santiago Camacho-Lopez,
  • Miroslava Cano-Lara and
  • Marco Camacho-Lopez

21 July 2020

Molybdenum oxide is an attractive material for application in several technology fields such as sensors, displays, and batteries, among many others. In this work, we present a reliable laser direct writing (LDW) method for synthesizing multi-phase mo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,498 Views
10 Pages

27 April 2021

We investigate the direct writing properties of copper (Cu) patterns on glass and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrates using femtosecond laser pulse-induced thermochemical reduction of glyoxylic acid copper (GACu) complex. The films of the GACu com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,688 Views
9 Pages

Femtosecond Laser-Based Modification of PDMS to Electrically Conductive Silicon Carbide

  • Yasutaka Nakajima,
  • Shuichiro Hayashi,
  • Akito Katayama,
  • Nikolay Nedyalkov and
  • Mitsuhiro Terakawa

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate femtosecond laser direct writing of conductive structures on the surface of native polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Irradiation of femtosecond laser pulses modified the PDMS to black structures, which exhibit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,749 Views
18 Pages

Carbon Dot Synthesis in CYTOP Optical Fiber Using IR Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing and Its Luminescence Properties

  • Ruyue Que,
  • Jean-Frédéric Audibert,
  • Enrique Garcia-Caurel,
  • Olivier Plantevin,
  • Kyriacos Kalli,
  • Matthieu Lancry,
  • Bertrand Poumellec and
  • Robert B. Pansu

Luminescent carbon dots (CDs) were locally synthesized in the core of CYTOP fibers using IR femtosecond laser direct writing (FLDW), a one-step simple method serving as a post-treatment of the pristine fiber. This approach enables the creation of sev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,976 Views
24 Pages

Femtosecond Direct Laser Writing of Silver Clusters in Phosphate Glasses for X-ray Spatially-Resolved Dosimetry

  • Joelle Harb,
  • Théo Guérineau,
  • Adriana Morana,
  • Arnaud Meyer,
  • Guillaume Raffy,
  • André Del Guerzo,
  • Youcef Ouerdane,
  • Aziz Boukenter,
  • Sylvain Girard and
  • Thierry Cardinal
  • + 2 authors

Radio-photoluminescence in silver-doped phosphate glasses has been extensively used for X-ray dosimetry. In this paper, we present the potential of silver clusters for X-ray spatially resolved dosimetry. Those clusters are generated in phosphate glas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,722 Views
15 Pages

Temperature Stability and Spectral Tuning of Long Period Fiber Gratings Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing

  • Duarte Viveiros,
  • José M. M. M. de Almeida,
  • Luís Coelho,
  • Helena Vasconcelos,
  • João M. Maia,
  • Vítor A. Amorim,
  • Pedro A. S. Jorge and
  • Paulo V. S. Marques

13 July 2020

Long period fiber gratings (LPFGs) were fabricated in a standard single mode fiber (SMF-28e) through femtosecond (fs) laser direct writing. LPFGs with longer and shorter periods were fabricated, which allows coupling from the fundamental core mode to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,481 Views
10 Pages

Direct laser-writing techniques have attracted attention for their use in two- and three-dimensional printing technologies. In this article, we report on a micropatterning process that uses femtosecond laser reductive sintering of mixed CuO/NiO nanop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,091 Views
13 Pages

26 July 2025

In this study, a facile and mask-free femtosecond laser direct writing (FLDW) approach is proposed to fabricate porous graphene (FLIG) patterns directly on polyimide (PI) substrates. By systematically adjusting the laser scanning spacing (10–25...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,219 Views
12 Pages

31 March 2023

Fiber-optic refractive index (RI) sensors based on wavelength-shift-based interrogation continue to present a challenge in achieving high sensitivity for a wide detection range. In this paper, we propose a sensor for determining the RI of liquids bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,112 Views
14 Pages

16 January 2025

Carbon-based nanomaterials with excellent electrical and optical properties are highly sought after for a plethora of hybrid applications, ranging from advanced sustainable energy storage devices to opto-electronic components. In this contribution, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,931 Views
9 Pages

21 January 2020

Femtosecond laser direct writing through two-photon polymerization has been widely used in precision fabrication of three-dimensional microstructures but is usually time consuming. In this article, we report the rapid fabrication of continuous surfac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,268 Views
11 Pages

12 September 2018

We report on laser performances obtained in Q-switch mode operation from buried depressed-cladding waveguides of circular shape (100 μm diameter) that were inscribed in Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO4 media by direct writing with a femtosecond laser beam. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,166 Views
9 Pages

Three-Dimensional High-Resolution Laser Lithography of CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots in Photoresist with Sub-100 nm Feature Size

  • Boyuan Cai,
  • Haoran Jiang,
  • Run Bai,
  • Shengting Zhu,
  • Yinan Zhang,
  • Haoyi Yu,
  • Min Gu and
  • Qiming Zhang

31 March 2025

Perovskite quantum dots (PQDs), with their excellent optical properties, have become a leading semiconductor material in the field of optoelectronics. However, to date, it has been a challenge to achieve the three-dimensional high-resolution patterni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,289 Views
15 Pages

Additive Manufacturing of Gold Nanostructures Using Nonlinear Photoreduction under Controlled Ionic Diffusion

  • Wera Di Cianni,
  • María de la Mata,
  • Francisco J. Delgado,
  • Giovanni Desiderio,
  • Sergio I. Molina,
  • Alberto S. de León and
  • Michele Giocondo

Multiphoton photoreduction of photosensitive metallic precursors via direct laser writing (DLW) is a promising technique for the synthesis of metallic structures onto solid substrates at the sub-micron scale. DLW triggered by a two photon absorption...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,194 Views
20 Pages

Integrated Optical Waveguide Electric Field Sensors Based on Bismuth Germanate

  • Jin Wang,
  • Yilin Song,
  • Xuefei Song,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Junqi Yang and
  • Zhi Xuan

28 August 2024

Bismuth germanate (Bi4Ge3O12, BGO) is a widely used optical sensing material with a high electro-optic coefficient, ideal for optical electric field sensors. Achieving high precision in electric field sensing requires fabricating optical waveguides o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,266 Views
10 Pages

Ultrafast Laser-Induced Crystallization of Lead Germanate Glass

  • Sergey V. Lotarev,
  • Alexey S. Lipatiev,
  • Tatiana O. Lipateva,
  • Elena V. Lopatina and
  • Vladimir N. Sigaev

18 February 2021

Laser-induced space-selective crystallization of glass enabling the growth of continuous crystal-in-glass architectures consisting of non-centrosymmetric phases with functional properties is promising, including single-crystal waveguides for the deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,924 Views
13 Pages

Double-Track Waveguides inside Calcium Fluoride Crystals

  • Wendwesen Gebremichael,
  • Lionel Canioni,
  • Yannick Petit and
  • Inka Manek-Hönninger

12 February 2020

Calcium Fluoride (CaF2) was selected owing to its cubic symmetry and excellent luminescence properties as a crystal of interest, and ultrafast laser inscription of in-bulk double-track waveguides was realized. The guiding properties of these waveguid...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,058 Views
20 Pages

Comparative Performance Analysis of Femtosecond-Laser-Written Diode-Pumped Pr:LiLuF4 Visible Waveguide Lasers

  • Davide Baiocco,
  • Ignacio Lopez-Quintas,
  • Javier R. Vázquez de Aldana,
  • Mauro Tonelli and
  • Alessandro Tredicucci

In this work, we present the operation of a femtosecond-laser-written diode-pumped visible waveguide laser based on praseodymium-doped lithium lutetium fluoride. The refractive index modification induced by the femtosecond laser in the crystal exhibi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,902 Views
9 Pages

24 November 2020

Five-dimensional (5D) recording and decoding is demonstrated by using femtosecond direct laser writing in a silver-containing commercial glass. In particular, laser intensities and ellipse orientations generated by anamorphic focusing are employed to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,472 Views
12 Pages

18 December 2019

Ion-doped crystal-based compact devices capable of beam splitting and coupling are enthralling for a broad range of classical and quantum integrated photonics applications. In this work, we report on the fabrication of depressed-cladding waveguide 2D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,384 Views
8 Pages

Integrated NV Center-Based Temperature Sensor for Internal Thermal Monitoring in Optical Waveguides

  • Yifan Zhao,
  • Shihan Ding,
  • Shuo Wang,
  • Yiming Hu,
  • Hongliang Liu,
  • Zhen Shang and
  • Yongjian Gu

2 July 2025

Color centers in solids, such as nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds, have gained significant attention in recent years due to their exceptional properties for quantum sensing. In this work, we demonstrate an NV center-based temperature sensor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,295 Views
10 Pages

An Integrated Pump-Controlled Variable Coupler Fabricated by Ultrafast Laser Writing

  • David Benedicto,
  • Juan C. Martín,
  • Antonio Dias-Ponte,
  • Javier Solis and
  • Juan A. Vallés

4 July 2023

The design and fabrication of a integrated symmetric directional coupler dependent o the pumping power and operating at a 1534 nm wavelength is reported. The twin-core waveguide was inscribed into Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped phosphate glass by a femtosecond l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,241 Views
15 Pages

10 January 2025

Microfluidic sensors incorporated onto chips allow sensor miniaturization and high-throughput analyses for point-of-care or non-clinical analytical tools. Three-dimensional (3D) printing based on femtosecond laser direct writing (fs-LDW) is useful fo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,667 Views
53 Pages

10 September 2025

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), data centers, and high-performance computing (HPC) has increased the demand for large bandwidth, high energy efficiency, and high-density optical interconnects. Co-packaged optics (CPO) technology off...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,325 Views
14 Pages

Si-Cr Nano-Alloys Fabricated by Direct Femtosecond Laser Writing

  • Jovan Maksimovic,
  • Haoran Mu,
  • Molong Han,
  • Daniel Smith,
  • Tomas Katkus,
  • Vijayakumar Anand,
  • Yoshiaki Nishijima,
  • Soon Hock Ng and
  • Saulius Juodkazis

25 February 2023

Ultra-short 230 fs laser pulses of 515 nm wavelength were tightly focused into 700 nm focal spots and utilised in opening ∼400 nm nano-holes in a Cr etch mask that was tens-of-nm thick. The ablation threshold was found to be 2.3 nJ/pulse, double...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,329 Views
12 Pages

2 August 2022

The circular Fresnel zone plate (FZP) has been extensively used in micro-optics due to its outstanding focusing performance. Despite that, the curved edge of the circular zone has drawbacks limiting its use in terahertz imaging, array generator, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,941 Views
13 Pages

Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing of Gecko-Inspired Switchable Adhesion Interfaces on a Flexible Substrate

  • Zhiang Zhang,
  • Bingze He,
  • Qingqing Han,
  • Ruokun He,
  • Yuxuan Ding,
  • Bing Han and
  • Zhuo-Chen Ma

6 September 2023

Biomimetic switchable adhesion interfaces (BSAIs) with dynamic adhesion states have demonstrated significant advantages in micro-manipulation and bio-detection. Among them, gecko-inspired adhesives have garnered considerable attention due to their ex...

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