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Modified astigmatic beam technique for laser writing

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The ultrafast laser writing of optical waveguides and devices is increasingly ubiquitous among the photonics community, mostly for its flexibility and three-dimensional fabrication capability. The well-known astigmatic beam technique is the simplest method to inscribe near-circular cross-section waveguides. In this paper, we report on a significant enhancement to the widely used astigmatic beam technique that makes it more flexible and yields a more circular waveguide cross section. By simply superposing a long-focus lens before the laser inscription objective lens, we demonstrate that the normalized squared radial deviation from a perfectly circular waveguide cross section can be reduced to < 4 × 1 0 − 4 , which is a significant improvement compared to > 0.1 typically obtained using the standard astigmatic beam technique, or > 0.7 with a Gaussian beam. The modified technique also makes it easy to use the full power delivered by the laser, which is not usually the case with the standard technique. A technique to optimize the waveguide shape prior to the inscription by in situ laser-induced plasma emission imaging is also discussed.
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Jerome Lapointe, Jean-Philippe Bérubé, Albert Dupont, Matthieu Bellec, Réal Vallée. Modified astigmatic beam technique for laser writing. Applied optics, 2022, 61 (9), pp.2333. ⟨10.1364/AO.454380⟩. ⟨hal-03817210⟩
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