Abstract
Ultrafast lasers have revolutionized material processing, opening a wealth of new applications in many areas of science. A recent technology that allows the cleaving of transparent materials via non-ablative processes is based on focusing and translating a high-intensity laser beam within a material to induce a well-defined internal stress plane. This then enables material separation without debris generation. Here, we use a non-diffracting beam engineered to have a transverse elliptical spatial profile to generate high-aspect-ratio elliptical channels in glass of a dimension 350 nm × 710 nm and subsequent cleaved surface uniformity at the sub-micron level.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4307-4310 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Optics Letters |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 21 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |