TY - CONF A1 - Mermillod-Blondin, A. A1 - Seuthe, T. A1 - Eberstein, M. A1 - Grehn, M. A1 - Bonse, Jörn A1 - Rosenfeld, A. ED - Gorecki, C. ED - Asundi, A. K. ED - Osten, W. T1 - Quantitative estimate of fs-laser induced refractive index changes in the bulk of various transparent materials N2 - Over the past years, many applications based on laser-induced refractive index changes in the volume of transparent materials have been demonstrated. Ultrashort pulse lasers offer the possibility to process bulky transparent materials in three dimensions, suggesting that direct laser writing will play a decisive role in the development of integrated micro-optics. At the present time, applications such as 3D long term data storage or embedded laser marking are already into the phase of industrial development. However, a quantitative estimate of the laser-induced refractive index change is still very challenging to obtain. On another hand, several microscopy techniques have been recently developed to characterize bulk refractive index changes in-situ. They have been mostly applied to biological purposes. Among those, spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM), offers a very good robustness with minimal post acquisition data processing. In this paper, we report on using SLIM to measure fs-laser induced refractive index changes in different common glassy materials, such as fused silica and borofloat glass (B33). The advantages of SLIM over classical phase-contrast microscopy are discussed. T2 - Optical Micro- and Nanometrology V CY - Brussels, Belgium DA - 14.04.2014 KW - Laser material processing KW - Quantitative phase-contrast microscopy KW - Spatial light interference microscopy KW - Nanometrology PY - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051590 VL - 9132 SP - Artikel 91320X, 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-30638 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mermillod-Blondin, A. A1 - Mauclair, C. A1 - Rosenfeld, A. A1 - Bonse, Jörn A1 - Stoian, R. A1 - Audouard, E. T1 - Time-resolved imaging of bulk a-SiO2 upon various ultrashort excitation sequences N2 - Ultrashort pulses lasers are tools of choice for functionalizing the bulk of transparent materials. In particular, direct photoinscription of simple photonic functions have been demonstrated. Those elementary functions rely on the local refractive index change induced when focusing an ultrashort pulse in the volume of a transparent material. The range of possibilities offered by direct photoinscription is still under investigation. To help understanding, optimizing and assessing the full potential of this method, we developed a time-resolved phase contrast microscopy setup. The imaginary part (absorption) and the real part of the laser-induced complex refractive index can be visualized in the irradiated region. The setup is based on a commercially available phase contrast microscope extended into a pump-probe scheme. The originality of our approach is that the illumination is performed by using a pulsed laser source (i.e. a probe beam). Speckle-related issues are solved by employing adequate sets of diffusers. This laser-microscopy technique has a spatial resolution of 650 nm, and the impulse response is about 300 fs. The laser-induced refractive index changes can be tracked up to milliseconds after the energy deposition. The excitation beam (the pump) is focused with a microscope objective (numerical aperture of 0.45) into the bulk of an a-SiO2 sample. The pump beam can be temporally shaped with a SLM-based pulse shaping unit. This additional degree of flexibility allows for observing different interaction regimes. For instance, bulk material processing with femtosecond and picosecond duration pulses will be studied. T2 - Photonics West 2011 CY - San Francisco, CA, USA DA - 22.01.2011 PY - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876687 VL - 7925 IS - 79250R SP - 1 EP - 7 AN - OPUS4-23332 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mauclair, C. A1 - Mermillod-Blondin, A. A1 - Mishchik, K. A1 - Bonse, Jörn A1 - Rosenfeld, A. A1 - Colombier, J. P. A1 - Stoian, R. T1 - Excitation and relaxation dynamics in ultrafast laser irradiated optical glasses N2 - We discuss the dynamics of ultrashort pulsed laser excitation in bulk optical silica-based glasses (fused silica and borosilicate BK7) well-above the permanent modification threshold. We indicate subsequent structural and thermomechanical energy relaxation paths that translate into positive and negative refractive index changes, compression and rarefaction zones. If fast electronic decay occurs at low excitation levels in fused silica via self-trapping of excitons, for carrier densities in the vicinity of the critical value at the incident wavelength, persistent long-living absorptive states indicate the achievement of low viscosity matter states manifesting pressure relaxation, rarefaction, void opening and compaction in the neighboring domains. An intermediate ps-long excited carrier dynamics is observed for BK7 in the range corresponding to structural expansion and rarefaction. The amount of excitation and the strength of the subsequent hydrodynamic evolution is critically dependent on the pulse time envelope, indicative of potential optimization schemes. KW - Ultrafast laser excitation KW - Refractive index engineering KW - Glasses KW - Carrier plasmas KW - Pulse shaping PY - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2016.45 SN - 2095-4719 SN - 2052-3289 VL - 4 SP - e46, 1 EP - 8 PB - Cambridge University Press AN - OPUS4-38689 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Seuthe, T. A1 - Grehn, M. A1 - Mermillod-Blondin, A. A1 - Bonse, Jörn A1 - Eberstein, M. T1 - Requirements on glasses for femtosecond-laser based micro-structuring N2 - In this work, glasses with systematically varied compositions were manufactured and irradiated by single Ti:sapphire fs-laserpulses (800 nm, 120 fs), focused at the surface and into the bulk of the glass materials. The samples were tested for their ablation threshold fluence as well as for structural changes using µ-Raman-spectroscopy. Correlations between the glass composition, the material-ablation on the glass surface and the permanent changes of the refractive index inside the glass volume after the irradiation by fs-laser pulses were obtained. The results show, that the structural modifications found at the surface of the glasses and inside its volume are closely related. However, while the ablation threshold fluence of the glass surface primarily depends on the glass dissociation energy, the permanent refractive index change inside the volume is rather determined by its ability for absorbing the fs-laser pulses and the subsequent relaxation processes. The results of this work provide some guidance on how the glass composition can be varied in order to optimize the fs-laser induced modification of dielectrics. T2 - 11th International Conference on Ceramic Interconnect & Ceramic Microsystems Technologies CY - Dresden, Germany DA - 20.04.2015 PY - 2015 SN - 978-1-5108-0456-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4071/CICMT-TA24 SP - 47 EP - 53 PB - Curran CY - Red Hook, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-34755 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mermillod-Blondin, A. A1 - Bonse, Jörn A1 - Rosenfeld, A. A1 - Seuthe, T. A1 - Eberstein, M. A1 - Grehn, M. T1 - Quantitative estimate of laser-induced refractive index changes in the bulk of various transparent materials T2 - SPIE Photonics Europe, Optical Micro- and Nanometrology conference CY - Brussels, Belgium DA - 2014-04-15 PY - 2014 AN - OPUS4-30308 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -