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Dynamic modulation of spatially structured polarization fields for real-time control of ultrafast laser-material interactions

Laser Group at Liverpool > Dynamic modulation of spatially structured polarization fields for real-time control of ultrafast laser-material interactions

Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 21, pp. 25333-25343 (2013)

  1. Jin, O. J. Allegre, W. Perrie, K. Abrams, J. Ouyang, E. Fearon, S. P. Edwardson, and G. Dearden

The polarization state of an ultrafast laser is dynamically controlled using two Spatial Light Modulators and additional waveplates. Consequently, four states of polarization, linear horizontal and vertical, radial and azimuthal, all with a ring intensity distribution, were dynamically switched at a frequency ν = 12.5Hz while synchronized with a motion control system. This technique, demonstrated here for the first time, enables a remarkable level of real-time control of the properties of light waves and applied to real-time surface patterning, shows that highly controlled nanostructuring is possible. Laser ablation of Induced Periodic Surface Structures is used to directly verify the state of polarization at the focal plane.

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