Nanostructured graded index materials

Author

Hudelist, F. ; Waddie, Andrew J. ; Nowosielski, J.M. ; Buczynski, R. ; Taghizadeh, Mohammad R.

Author_Institution

Heriot Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper nano-structured elements are fabricated with the stack-and-draw method used for all solid photonic crystal fibres. We fabricate non-guiding structures with a much larger diameter and feature sizes of 200 nm and less. These structures are cut to discs of a few hundred mum thickness for use as optical GRIN elements like lenses and beam correctors. Due to the method of fabrication, the elements can have a completely arbitrary index distribution within the limitations of the materials used in the element fabrication.

Keywords

gradient index optics; holey fibres; nanofabrication; nanophotonics; nanostructured materials; optical fabrication; photonic crystals; arbitrary index distribution; beam corrector; draw method; nanostructured element fabrication; nanostructured graded index material; nonguiding structure fabrication; optical GRIN element; optical lenses; size 200 nm; solid photonic crystal fibres; stack method; Dielectric materials; Lenses; Nanostructured materials; Optical design; Optical device fabrication; Optical materials; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical vortices; Refractive index;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5191958

Filename

5191958