Abstract

Multi-sector broadband diffractive optical elements (DOEs) were designed and fabricated from fused silica for high-efficiency multiplexing of femtosecond and nanosecond Gaussian laser beams into multiple (up to one 100) optically tunable microbeams with increased high-numerical aperture (NA) focal depths. Various DOE-related issues, such as high-NA laser focusing, laser pulsewidth, and DOE symmetry-dependent heat conduction effects, as well as the corresponding spatial resolution, were discussed in the context of high-throughput laser patterning. The increased focal depths provided by such DOEs, their high multiplexing efficiency and damage threshold, as well as easy-to-implement optical shaping of output microbeams provide advanced opportunities for direct, mask-free, and vacuum-free high-throughput subtractive (ablative) and displacive pulsed-laser patterning of various nanoplasmonic films for surface-enhanced spectroscopy, sensing, and light control.

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