Light: Science & Applications (Feb 2023)

Tailoring chiral optical properties by femtosecond laser direct writing in silica

  • Jiafeng Lu,
  • Jing Tian,
  • Bertrand Poumellec,
  • Enrique Garcia-Caurel,
  • Razvigor Ossikovski,
  • Xianglong Zeng,
  • Matthieu Lancry

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-023-01080-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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A two-layers model is proposed to reveal that femtosecond laser direct writing chirality inside silica glass has two contributions: a form birefringence and a stress related birefringence.