Virtual Feature Issue

Introduction: Femtosecond Direct Laser Writing and Structuring of Materials (FDLW) feature

Thierry Cardinal, Bertrand Poumellec, and Kazuyuki Hirao

Opt. Mater. Express 1(5), 996-997 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond laser delamination of thin transparent layers from semiconducting substrates

Tino Rublack and Gerhard Seifert

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 543-550 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance of ultrafast laser written active waveguides by rigorous modeling of optical gain measurements

J.A. Vallés, A. Ferrer, J. M. Fernández-Navarro, V. Berdejo, A. Ruiz de la Cruz, Inés Ortega-Feliu, M.Á. Rebolledo, and J. Solís

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 564-575 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Three-dimensional direct laser writing inspired by stimulated-emission-depletion microscopy [Invited]

Joachim Fischer and Martin Wegener

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 614-624 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultrashort pulse inscription of tailored fiber Bragg gratings with a phase mask and a deformed wavefront [Invited]

Christian Voigtländer, Ria G. Becker, Jens Thomas, Daniel Richter, Anshuman Singh, Andreas Tünnermann, and Stefan Nolte

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 633-642 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Bragg grating inscription in various optical fibers with femtosecond infrared lasers and a phase mask

Stephen J. Mihailov, Dan Grobnic, Christopher W. Smelser, Ping Lu, Robert B. Walker, and Huimin Ding

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 754-765 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization sensitive elements fabricated by femtosecond laser nanostructuring of glass [Invited]

Martynas Beresna, Mindaugas Gecevičius, and Peter G. Kazansky

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 783-795 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Manipulation of optical anisotropy in silica glass [Invited]

Yasuhiko Shimotsuma, Masaaki Sakakura, and Kiyotaka Miura

Opt. Mater. Express 1(5), 803-815 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

On the bending strength of fused silica flexures fabricated by ultrafast lasers [Invited]

Yves Bellouard

Opt. Mater. Express 1(5), 816-831 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Femtosecond laser induced density changes in GeO₂ and SiO₂ glasses: fictive temperature effect [Invited]

Lena Bressel, Dominique de Ligny, Camille Sonneville, Valérie Martinez, Vygantas Mizeikis, Ričardas Buividas, and Saulius Juodkazis

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 605-613 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Physical mechanisms of fused silica restructuring and densification after femtosecond laser excitation [Invited]

D. G. Papazoglou and S. Tzortzakis

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 625-632 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Influence of bandgap and polarization on photo-ionization: guidelines for ultrafast laser inscription [Invited]

Douglas J. Little, Martin Ams, and Michael J. Withford

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 670-677 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Dependence of the femtosecond laser refractive index change thresholds on the chemical composition of doped-silica glasses

M. Lancry, B. Poumellec, A. Chahid-Erraji, M. Beresna, and P. G. Kazansky

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 711-723 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Different refractive index change behavior in borosilicate glasses induced by 1 kHz and 250 kHz femtosecond lasers

Geng Lin, Fangfang Luo, Fei He, Qingxi Chen, Danping Chen, Ya Cheng, Long Zhang, Jianrong Qiu, and Quanzhong Zhao

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 724-731 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Modification thresholds in femtosecond laser processing of pure silica: review of dependencies on laser parameters [Invited]

B. Poumellec, M. Lancry, A. Chahid-Erraji, and P. G. Kazansky

Opt. Mater. Express 1(4), 766-782 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Role of the 1D optical filamentation process in the writing of first order fiber Bragg gratings with femtosecond pulses at 800nm [Invited]

Martin Bernier, Stephan Gagnon, and Réal Vallée

Opt. Mater. Express 1(5), 832-844 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond laser writing of waveguides in zinc phosphate glasses [Invited]

Luke B. Fletcher, Jonathan J. Witcher, Neil Troy, Signo T. Reis, Richard K. Brow, Rebeca Martinez Vazquez, Roberto Osellame, and Denise M. Krol

Opt. Mater. Express 1(5), 845-855 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond laser induced photochemistry in materials tailored with photosensitive agents [Invited]

Arnaud Royon, Yannick Petit, Gautier Papon, Martin Richardson, and Lionel Canioni

Opt. Mater. Express 1(5), 866-882 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser-induced structural modification, its mechanisms, and applications in glassy optical materials

J. David Musgraves, Kathleen Richardson, and Himanshu Jain

Opt. Mater. Express 1(5), 921-935 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF

Anatomy of a femtosecond laser processed silica waveguide [Invited]

J. Canning, M. Lancry, K. Cook, A. Weickman, F. Brisset, and B. Poumellec

Opt. Mater. Express 1(5), 998-1008 (2011)  View: HTML | PDF