| Issue |
MATEC Web of Conferences
Volume 32, 2015
International Symposium of Optomechatronics Technology (ISOT 2015)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 07005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Tunable and adaptive optics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20153207005 | |
| Published online | 02 December 2015 | |
Adaptive micro axicons for laser applications
1 Laboratory for Microactuators, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Georges-Koehler-Allee 102, 79110 Freiburg Germany
2 Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Max Born Str. 2a, 12489 Berlin, Germany
a Corresponding author: wallrabe@imtek.uni-freiburg.de
We report on the design, fabrication and testing of novel types of low-dispersion axicons for the adaptive shaping of ultrashort laser pulses. An overview is given on the basic geometries and operating principles of our purely reflective adaptive MEMS-type devices based on thermal or piezoelectric actuation. The flexible formation of nondiffracting beams at pulse durations down to a few oscillations of the optical field enables new applications in optical communication, pulse diagnostics, laser-matter interaction and particle manipulation. As an example, we show first promising results of adaptive autocorrelation. The combination of excellent pulse transfer, self-reconstruction properties and propagation invariance of nondiffracting beams with an adaptive approach promises to extend the field of practical applications significantly.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2015
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.