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SWIR anti-reflective nanostructures on nonlinear crystals by direct UV femtosecond laser printing. / Syubaev, Sergey; Modin, Evgeny; Gurbatov, Stanislav et al.
In: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 123, No. 6, 061108, 07.08.2023.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - SWIR anti-reflective nanostructures on nonlinear crystals by direct UV femtosecond laser printing
AU - Syubaev, Sergey
AU - Modin, Evgeny
AU - Gurbatov, Stanislav
AU - Cherepakhin, Artem
AU - Dostovalov, Alexandr
AU - Tarasova, Aleksandra
AU - Krinitsin, Pavel
AU - Yelisseyev, Alexander
AU - Isaenko, Ludmila
AU - Kuchmizhak, Aleksandr
N1 - The work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 23-22-00190). Публикация для корректировки.
PY - 2023/8/7
Y1 - 2023/8/7
N2 - Nonlinear infrared (IR) crystals for radiation conversion are of paramount importance for realization of advanced laser spectrometers for medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and advanced sensing. However, performance of such crystals suffers from substantial surface reflectivity coming from rather high (over 2.5) refractive index of the key nonlinear materials used. Here, based on the example of promising BaGa4Se7 nonlinear crystal, we attested direct surface patterning with ultraviolet (257 nm) femtosecond laser pulses used to engrave anti-reflective microstructures (ARMs) directly on both output sides of the crystal. Imprinted surface nanotrenches arranged into a fish-net morphology with a periodicity down to 500 nm was found to increase transmittance of the crystals from 65% to 84% within a practically relevant shortwave IR spectral range. Formation of the ARMs with an optimized geometry is expected to weakly reduce the laser damage threshold of a pristine crystal material as it was also evidenced from supporting full-wave simulations and tests.
AB - Nonlinear infrared (IR) crystals for radiation conversion are of paramount importance for realization of advanced laser spectrometers for medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and advanced sensing. However, performance of such crystals suffers from substantial surface reflectivity coming from rather high (over 2.5) refractive index of the key nonlinear materials used. Here, based on the example of promising BaGa4Se7 nonlinear crystal, we attested direct surface patterning with ultraviolet (257 nm) femtosecond laser pulses used to engrave anti-reflective microstructures (ARMs) directly on both output sides of the crystal. Imprinted surface nanotrenches arranged into a fish-net morphology with a periodicity down to 500 nm was found to increase transmittance of the crystals from 65% to 84% within a practically relevant shortwave IR spectral range. Formation of the ARMs with an optimized geometry is expected to weakly reduce the laser damage threshold of a pristine crystal material as it was also evidenced from supporting full-wave simulations and tests.
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U2 - 10.1063/5.0159719
DO - 10.1063/5.0159719
M3 - Article
VL - 123
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
SN - 0003-6951
IS - 6
M1 - 061108
ER -
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