Feedback-assisted Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Ablation of Non-Planar Metal Surfaces: Fabrication of Optical Apertures on Tapered Fibers for Optical Neural Interfaces

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العنوان: Feedback-assisted Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Ablation of Non-Planar Metal Surfaces: Fabrication of Optical Apertures on Tapered Fibers for Optical Neural Interfaces
المؤلفون: Balena, Antonio, Bianco, Marco, Pisano, Filippo, Pisanello, Marco, Sileo, Leonardo, Sabatini, Bernardo, De Vittorio, Massimo, Pisanello, Ferruccio
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Applied Physics, Physics - Optics
الوصف: We propose a feedback-assisted direct laser writing method to perform laser ablation of fiber optics devices in which their light-collection signal is used to optimize their properties. A femtosecond-pulsed laser beam is used to ablate a metal coating deposited around a tapered optical fiber, employed to show the suitability of the approach to pattern devices with small radius of curvature. During processing, the same pulses generate two-photon fluorescence in the surrounding environment and the signal is monitored to identify different patterning regimes over time through spectral analysis. The employed fs beam mostly interacts with the metal coating, leaving almost intact the underlying silica and enabling fluorescence to couple with a specific subset of guided modes, as verified by far-field analysis. Although the method is described here for tapered optical fibers used to obtain efficient light collection in the field of optical neural interfaces, it can be easily extended to other waveguides-based devices and represents a general approach to support the implementation closed-loop laser ablation system of fiber optics.
Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1364/OE.395187
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02884
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2005.02884
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv