Alexandra Boltasseva, Editor-in-Chief
Thierry Cardinal, Guest Editor Bertrand Poumellec, Guest Editor Kazuyuki Hirao, Guest Editor
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