Femtosecond laser nanostructuring in porous glass with sub-50 nm feature sizes

Yang Liao, Yinglong Shen, Lingling Qiao, Danping Chen, Ya Cheng, Koji Sugioka, Katsumi Midorikawa

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Abstract

We report on controllable production of nanostructures embedded in a porous glass by femtosecond laser direct writing. We show that a hollow nanovoid with a lateral size of ~40 nm and an axial size of ~1500 nm can be achieved by manipulating the peak intensity and polarization of the writing laser beam. Our finding enables applications ranging from direct construction of 3D nanofluidics in glass to clean stealth dicing of transparent plates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)187-189
Number of pages3
JournalOptics Letters
Volume38
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes

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