Publications

ESR Publications realized within GREAT

• Danish Bashir, Ayoub Boubekraoui, Georgia Mourkioti, Fangfang Li, Petri Karvinen, Markku Kuittinen, Jacob. I. Mackenzie, Thomas Graf, Marwan Abdou Ahmed, « Sapphire-based resonant waveguide-grating mirrors: advancing their intra-cavity power density capability« , Appl. Phys. B 130, 4, 10.1007/s00340-023-08144-2 (2024).
  

• Denys Didychenko, Stefan Esser, Frieder Beirow, Anton Savchenko, Christof Pruss, Thomas Graf, Marwan Abdou Ahmed « Generation of a radially polarized beam in a polycrystalline ceramic Yb:Lu2O3 thin‑disk laser » Applied Physics B 129:146, doi.org/10.1007/s00340-023-08089-6  (2023).

• Mourkioti, G., Bashir, D., Govindassamy, G.A., Li, F., Eason R. W., Graf, T., Abdou Ahmed, M., Mackenzie, J. “Sc2O3 on sapphire all-crystalline grating–waveguide resonant reflectors” Appl. Phys. B 129, 66, doi.org/10.1007/s00340-023-08009-8 (2023).

• Stehlik, J. Zideluns, C. Petite, V. Allard, M. Minissale, A. Moreau, A. Lereu, F. Lemarchand, F. Wagner, J. Lumeau, L. Gallais, ‘Investigation of laser-induced contamination on dielectric thin films in MHz sub-ps regime’, Adv. Opt. Technol. 12, 1261267 (2023).

• Janis Zideluns, Fabien Lemarchand, Detlef Arhilger, Harro Hagedorn, and Julien Lumeau, « Strategies for in-situ thin film filter monitoring with a broadband spectrometer, » Opt. Express 31, 9339-9349. doi.org/10.1364/OE.484333 (2023).

• Adrian Grande, Dia Darwich, Valerian Freysz, Johan Boullet, and Eric Cormier, « Sub-100 fs all-fiber polarization maintaining widely tunable laser at 2 µm », Optics Letters, Vol. 48, Issue 20, pp. 5237-5240, doi.org/10.1364/OL.502511 (2023).

  

• Giovanna Capraro, Maxim Lipkin, Michael Möller, Jens Bolten, Max C. Lemme, Phase Mask Pinholes as Spatial Filters for Laser Interference Lithography, Advanced Photonic Research, 10.1002/adpr.202300225 (2023).

• Fangfang Li, Shawn Lapointe, Théo Courval, Marina Fetisova, Thomas Kämpfe, Isabelle Verrier, Yves Jourlin, Petri Karvinen, Markku Kuittinen and Jean-François Bisson, « A chiral microchip laser using anisotropic grating mirrors for single mode emission », Nanophotonics, 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0783 (2023).

• Ratish Rao Nagaraj Rao, Florian Bienert, Michael Moeller, Danish Bashir, Alina Hamri, Frederic Celle, Emilie Gamet, Marwan Abdou Ahmed, and Yves Jourlin, « Quantitative investigation on a period variation reduction method for the fabrication of large-area gratings using two-spherical-beam laser interference lithography« , Optics Express Vol. 31, Issue 1, pp. 371-380 (2023).

  

• Muhammad Ghawas, Valerian Freysz, Lukas Müller, Sébastien Cassagnère, and Eric Freysz, « High power ytterbium rod-type fiber laser delivering tunable picosecond pulses, » Opt. Express 30, 44569-44579 (2022).

• Govindassamy, G.A., Prentice, J.J., Lunney, J.G., Eason, R.W., Mackenzie, J.I. “Effect of laser repetition rate on the growth of Sc2O3 via pulsed laser deposition”. Appl. Phys. A 128, 577. doi.org/10.1007/s00339-022-05698-4 (2022).

  

• Anton Savchenko, Fangfang Li, Janis Zideluns, Danish Bashir, Denys Didychenko, Julien Lumeau, Christof Pruss, Marwan Abdou Ahmed, « Fabrication of sub-wavelength circular diffraction gratings for high-power laser applications », DGaO Proceedings 123_b31 (2022).
  
• Ayoub Boubekraoui, Frieder Beirow, Thomas Graf, and Marwan Abdou Ahmed, « Intra-cavity wavelength multiplexing of high-brightness thin-disk laser beams, » accepted for publication in Applied Phys. B volume 128, 120 (2022).

• Marek Stehlik, Goby Govindassamy, Janis Zideluns, Fabien Le Marchand, Frank Wagner, Julien Lumeau, Jacob Mackenzie, and Laurent Gallais, « Sub-picosecond 1030 nm laser-induced damage threshold evaluation of pulsed-laser deposited sesquioxide thin films, » Opt. Eng. 61, 079801 (2022).

• Marwan Abdou Ahmed, Frieder Beirow, André Loescher, Tom Dietrich, Danish Bashir, Denys Didychenko, Anton Savchenko, Christof Pruss, Marina Fetisova, Fangfang Li, Petri Karvinen, Markku Kuittinen, and Thomas Graf, « High-power thin-disk lasers emitting beams with axially-symmetric polarizations, » Nanophotonics 11, 835–846 (2022).

• Janis Zideluns, Fabien Lemarchand, Detlef Arhilger, Harro Hagedorn, and Julien Lumeau, « Automated optical monitoring wavelength selection for thin-film filters, » Opt. Express 29, 33398-33413 (2021).

• Marek Stehlík, Frank Wagner, Janis Zideluns, Fabien Lemarchand, Julien Lumeau, and Laurent Gallais, « Beam-size effects on the measurement of sub-picosecond intrinsic laser induced damage threshold of dielectric oxide coatings, » Appl. Opt. 60, 8569-8578 (2021).

• Marina Fetisova, Natalia Kryzhanovskaya, Igor Reduto, Valentina Zhurikhina, Olga Morozova, Aleksandr Raskhodchikov, Matthieu Roussey, Ségolène Pélisset, Marina Kulagina, Yulia Guseva, Andrey Lipovskii, Mikhail Maximov, and Alexey Zhukov, « Strip-loaded horizontal slot waveguide for routing microdisk laser emission, » J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37, 1878-1885 (2020)
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ESR Contribution to Conferences and Meetings

• “Fiber optical parametric oscillator delivering signal pulse tunable in wavelength and pulse duration” – CLEO Europe-EQEC 2023 – 26/06/23-30/06/23

• “Sub-100 fs all-fiber polarization maintaining tunable laser from ~1870 n up to ~2050 nm.” – CLEO Europe-EQEC 2023 – 26/06/23-30/06/23

• “Improved thermal performances of resonant reflection waveguide grating structure” – CLEO Europe-EQEC 2023 – 26/06/23-30/06/23

• “Radially polarized ceramic Yb:Lu₂O₃ thin-disk laser” – CLEO Europe-EQEC 2023 – 26/06/23-30/06/23

• “Sub-ps MHz green laser-induced contamination on dielectric coatings in air” – SPIE Laser Damage 2022 conference – 18/09/22-21/09/22

• “Sub-ps 1030 nm laser-induced damage threshold evaluation of pulsed-laser deposited sesquioxides and magnetron-sputtered metal oxide optical coatings” – SPIE Laser Damage 2022 conference – 18/09/22-21/09/22

• “Enhanced SEM metrology for R&D at the nanometer scale” – Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE) 2022 – 19/09/22-23/09/22

• « Crystalline Grating Waveguide Resonant reflectors » – 10^th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference – 28/08/22-02/09/22

• “Fabrication of sub-wavelength circular diffraction gratings for high-power laser applications” – DGaO Proceedings 123_b31 (2022) – 01.08.2022

• “Fabrication of sub-wavelength circular diffraction gratings for high-power laser applications” – 123. Jahrestagung der DGaO, topic – “Fabrication of sub-wavelength circular diffraction gratings for high-power laser applications”, 11.06.22.

• « Development of chirp reduction technique for spherical beams interference lithography. » – SPIE photonics Europe 2022 – 03/04/22- 07/04/22

• “Investigation on beam-size effect on sub-picosecond LIDT of dielectric oxide coatings” – Laser-induced Damage in Optical Materials 2021, conference – 17/10/21-20/10/21

• “Laser-induced contamination on dielectric coatings in sub-ps MHz regime at 515 nm” – Laser-induced Damage in Optical Materials 2021, conference – 17/10/21-20/10/21

• “Self-mode locked ytterbium rod-type fiber laser yielding bandwidth limited and tunable picosecond pulses up to 25 W at 78 MHz”-Advanced solid state lasers (ASSL) conference – OSA Lasers Congress 2021 – 03/10/21-07/10/21

• “Sub-ps laser damage resistance of optical coatings for reflective components” – FORUM ILP 2021, summer school – 27/09/21-01/10/21

• “Implementation of concave vacuum chuck in laser interference lithography to reduce period variation on large area gratings” – Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE) 2021 – 20/09/21-23/09/21

• “Implementation of phase mask pinholes as spatial filters for laser interference lithography” – Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE) 2021 – 20/09/21-23/09/21

• “Layer-by-layer adapted optical monitoring strategy of optical interference filters” – SPIE Optical Systems Design conference – 13/09/21-16/09/21

• “Integration of a microdisk laser with a strip-loaded slot waveguide” – “Optics and Photonics days” conference – 23/08/21-25/08/21

• “Sub-ps laser damage resistance of optical coatings for reflective components” – CLEO Europe – EQEC 2021 – 21/06/21-25/06/21

• “High performance optical interference filters fabrication using automatically optimized optical monitoring strategy” – CLEO Europe  – EQEC 2021 – 21/06/21-25/06/21

• “Application of ProSEM at AMO GmbH” Online BEAMeeting MNE 2020, ProSEM presentation.

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Relevant Publications of the Partner Institutions

University of Stuttgart – ITO

• M. Eckerle, T. Dietrich, F. Schaal, C. Pruss, W. Osten, M. Ahmed, and T. Graf, « Novel thin-disk oscillator concept for the generation of radially polarized femtosecond laser pulses, » Opt. Lett. 41, 1680-1683 (2016).
  
• M. Rumpel, M. Haefner, T. Schoder, C. Pruss, A. Voss, W. Osten, M. Ahmed, and T. Graf, « Circular grating waveguide structures for intracavity generation of azimuthal polarization in a thin-disk laser, » Opt. Lett. 37, 1763-1765 (2012).
  
• M. Vogel, M. Rumpel, B. Weichelt, A. Voss, M. Haefner, C. Pruss, W. Osten, M. Ahmed, and T. Graf, « Single-layer resonant-waveguide grating for polarization and wavelength selection in Yb:YAG thin-disk lasers, » Opt. Express 20, 4024-4031 (2012).
  
• M. Ahmed, M. Haefner, M. Vogel, C. Pruss, A. Voss, W. Osten, and T. Graf, « High-power radially polarized Yb:YAG thin-disk laser with high efficiency, » Opt. Express 19, 5093-5103 (2011).
  
• Matthias Haefner, Christof Pruss, and Wolfgang Osten, « Laser direct writing of rotationally symmetric high-resolution structures, » Appl. Opt. 50, 5983-5989 (2011).
  

University of Lyon – Laboratoire Hubert Curien

• Y. Jourlin et al, “Resonant-grating reflection extended to wide-band, large-aperture beams by waveguide-mode coalescence”, Opt. express 20(28), 2012
  
• D. Jamon, F. Royer, F. Parsy, E. Ghibaudo, J-E. Broquin, « Birefringence measurements in optical waveguides”, Journal of Lightwave Technology , vol. 31, N° 19, pp. 3151-3157, (2013).
  
• Lyndin, N., Kämpfe, T., Tonchev, S., Reynaud, S., & Parriaux, O. ”Transverse-mode selective resonant grating-mirrors for high power and high brightness emission”, Optics express, 23(13), 17275-17289 (2015)
  
• Kämpfe, T., Sixt, P., Renaud, D., Lagrange, A., Perrin, F., & Parriaux, O. “Segmented subwavelength silicon gratings manufactured by high productivity microelectronic technologies for linear to radial/azimuthal polarization conversion”, Optical Engineering, 53(10), 107105-107105 (2014)
• Kämpfe, T., Parriaux, O. “Depth-minimized, large period half-wave corrugation for linear to radial and azimuthal polarization transformation by grating-mode phase management”, JOSA A, 28(11), 2235-2242 (2011
  

Ecole Centrale Marseille – Institut Fresnel

• T. Begou, F. Lemarchand and J. Lumeau, « Advanced optical interference filters based on metal and dielectric layers », Optics Express 24(18), 20925–20937 (2016).
  
• A. Joerg, M. Vignaux, and J. Lumeau, « Versatile digital micromirror device-based method for the recording of multilevel optical diffractive elements in photosensitive chalcogenide layers (AMTIR-1), » Opt. Lett. 41, 3415–3418 (2016).
  
• Liu F., Gallais L.,’Absorption measurements in optical coatings by lock-in thermography’, Applied Optics, 56 9225 (2017)
  
• Sozet M., Bouillet S., Berthelot J., Neauport N., Lamaignere L., Gallais L.,’Sub-picosecond laser damage growth on high reflective coatings for high power applications’, Optics Express, 25 25767 (2017)
  
• Douti D.B., Begou T., Lemarchand F., Lumeau J., Commandre C., Gallais L.,’Analysis of laser energy deposition leading to damage and ablation of HfO2 and Nb2O5 single layers submitted to 500 fs pulses at 1030 and 343 nm’, Applied Physics A, 122 653 (2016)
  

University of Southampton – Optoelectronics Research Centre

• J. A. Grant-Jacob, S. J. Beecher, H. Riris, A. W. Yu, D. P. Shepherd, R. W. Eason, and J. I. Mackenzie, « Dynamic control of refractive index during pulsed-laser-deposited waveguide growth  » Optical Materials Express, vol. 7, 4073-4081 (2017)
  
• K. A. Sloyan, T. C. May-Smith, M. N. Zervas, and R. W. Eason, « Crystalline garnet Bragg reflectors for high power, high temperature, and integrated applications fabricated by multi-beam pulsed laser deposition, » Applied Physics Letters, vol. 101 (2012).
  
• C. R. Smith S. J. Beecher, J. I. Mackenzie, W. A. Clarkson, « Amplification of a radially polarised beam in an Yb:YAG thin-slab, » Applied Physics B, vol. 123: 225 (2017)

University of Eastern Finland – Department of Physics and Mathematics

• M. Kuittinen, P. Vahimaa, M. Honkanen, and J. Turunen, “Beam shaping in the nonparaxial domain of diffractive optics,” Applied Optics 36, 2034-2041 (1997)
  
• J. Pietarinen, V. Kalima, T. T. Pakkanen, M. Kuittinen, “Improvement of UV-moulding accuracy by heat and solvent assisted process,” Microelectronic Engineering 85, 263-270 (2008)
• P. Karvinen, T. Nuutinen, J. Rahomäki, O. Hyvärinen, and P. Vahimaa, “Strong fluorescence-signal gain with single-excitation-enhancing and emission-directing nanostructured diffraction grating,” Optics Letters 34, 3208-3210 (2009)
  
• T. Saastamoinen, T. Alasaarela, A. Lehmuskero, I. Vartiainen, N. Heikkila, and M. Kuittinen, “Resonance waveguide reflectors with semi-wide bandwidth at the visible wavelengths,” Optics Express 19, 2126-2132 (2011).
  
• JM Kontio, J. Simonen, K. Leinonen, M. Kuittinen, and T. Niemi, “Broadband infrared mirror using guided-mode resonance in a subwavelength germanium grating,” Optics Letters 15, 2564-2566 (2010).
  

AMO GmbH

• M. Rumpel, M. Moeller, C. Moormann, T. Graf, M. Abdou Ahmed “Broadband pulse compression gratings with measured 99.7% diffraction efficiency” January 15, 2014 / Vol. 39, No. 2 / OPTICS LETTERS
  
• M. Rumpel, B. Dannecker, A. Voss, M. Moeller, C. Moormann, T. Graf, M. Abdou Ahmed,“Thermal behavior of resonant waveguide-grating mirrors in Yb:YAG thin-disk lasers”,November 15, 2013 / Vol. 38, No. 22 / OPTICS LETTERS
  
• J.W. Kim, U. Plachetka, C. Moormann and H. Kurz, „Fabrication of micro-pyramid structures using soft UV-NIL and wet chemical etching methods for residual layer removal and Si-etching”, Microelectronic Engineering Volume 110, October 2013, Pages 403–407
  
• C. Moormann, N. Koo, J. Kim, U. Plachetka, F. Schlachter, C. Nowak, „Liquid transfer nanoimprint replication on nonflat surfaces for optical applications”, Microelectronic Engineering, Volume 100, December 2012, Pages 28–32
  
• N. Koo, M. Otto, J. Kim, J. Jeong, H. Kurz, „Press and release imprint: Control of the flexible mold deformation and the local variation of residual layer thickness in soft UV-NIL”, Microelectronic Engineering Volume 88, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 1033–1036
  

DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH – Beam sources department

• J.Decker et.al., “25-W Monolithic Spectrally Stabilized 975-nmMinibars for Dense Spectral Multiplexing”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol.27 (2015).
• U.Witte et.al., “kW-class direct diode laser for sheet metal cutting based on DWDM of pump modules by use of ultra-steep dielectric filters”, Optics Express, Vol. 24, No.20 (2016).
  
• David Irvin, Tobias Koenning, “Line-Narrowed Laser Module Enables Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping” BioPhotonics, Jan 2015
  

Alphanov – Laser sources and components

• J.Boullet, & al « High-order harmonic generation at a megahertz-level repetition rate directly driven by an ytterbium-doped-fibre chirped-pulse amplification system, » Opt. Lett. 34, 1489-1491 (2009)
  
• J. Boullet, & al « Regime-dependent Photo-darkening-induced Modal Degradation in High Power Fiber Amplifier, » in Lasers Congress 2016 (ASSL, LSC, LAC), OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2016), paper ATu4A.3.
  
• Claude Aguergaray & al « All-PM fibre, net normal cavity, Tm-doped fibre laser », Proc. SPIE 9728, Fiber Lasers XIII: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 97280R (15 March 2016)
  

University of Bordeaux – Laboratoire Ondes et Matiere d’Aquitaine

• P. Deslandes, J. Saby, D. Sangla, F. Salin, M. Perrin, E. Freysz, Picosecond to femtosecond pulses from high power self mode–locked ytterbium rod-type fibre laser, Opt. Express 21, 10731 (2013).
  
• G. Amiard Hudebine, G. Tison, E. Freysz, Compact nanosecond laser system for ignition of aeronautic combustion engines, J. Appl. Phys. 120 , 233102-1 233102-11 (2016)
  
• G. Amiard-Hudebine, J. Degert, E. Freysz, Self-compression of the signal wave in a PPLN OPO pumped by chirped pulses, Advanced Solid State Laser, 1 – 5 October 2017 Nagoya, Aichi, Japon.
  

Fibercryst SAS

• Industrial laser FEMTO25: http://www.fibercryst.com
  
• Laser gain module TARANIS : https://www.fibercryst.com/
  
• Paper : Nd:YAG single-crystal Fibre as high peak power amplifier of pulses below one nanosecond, I. Martial et al. OPTICS EXPRESS Vol. 19, No. 12, p. 11667 (2011)
  

TRUMPF Laser GmbH

• SPIE PW16 741-15 High-power CW and long-pulse lasers in the green wavelength regime for copper welding
  

Modus Research and Innovation Limited

• SQUADRONTM methodology for translation of research outputs into market ready commercial opportunities

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

• S. Kataria, S. Wagner, T. Cusati, A. Fortunelli, G. Iannaccone, H. Pandey, G. Fiori, M.C. Lemme, Growth-Induced Strain in Chemical Vapor Deposited Monolayer MoS2: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation”, Adv. Mat. Interfaces, 2017
  
• M. Koenig, G. Ruhl, J.-M. Batke, M.C. Lemme, “Self-organized Growth of Graphene Nanomesh with Increased Gas Sensitivity“, Nanoscale, 8: 15490-15496, 2016.
  
• V. Passi, A. Gahoi, S. Riazimehr, S. Wagner, A. Bablich, S. Kataria, M. Lemme, “Chemical Vapor Deposited Graphene for Opto-Electronic Applications, “Journal of Nano Research 39: 57-68, 2016
  
• S. Khandan Del, R. Bornemann, A. Bablich, H. Schäfer-Eberwein, J. Li, T. Kowald, M. Östling, P. Haring Bolívar, Max C Lemme, „Optimizing the optical and electrical properties of graphene ink thin films by laser-annealing“, 2D Materials, 2(1): 011003, 2015.
  
• J. Li, M.C. Lemme, M. Östling, “Inkjet Printing of 2D Layered Materials”, ChemPhysChem, 2014.
  

Novae Laser

• D. Gaponov et al., “High-power locked dissipative soliton fiber laser featuring cladding-pumped non-CVD thulium-doped fibre”, Journal of the Optical Society of America B Vol. 32, Issue 8, pp. 1656-1659 (2015)
  
• Paper : Nd:YAG single-crystal Fibre as high peak power amplifier of pulses below one nanosecond, I. Martial et al. OPTICS EXPRESS Vol. 19, No. 12, p. 11667 (2011)
  

Amplitude Systemes SA

• Hönninger, C. and Akhil, J. (2016), Femtosecond Lasers over 100 Watts. LTJ, 13: 56–59. doi:10.1002/latj.201600014
  
• http://www.amplitude-systemes.com/client/document/satsumahp_3.pdf
  
• http://www.amplitude-systemes.com/client/document/yuja_datasheet_11.pdf