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Investigation of laser damage of grating waveguide structures submitted to sub-picosecond pulses

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Grating waveguide structures (GWS) are reflective diffractive optical elements that operate based on the combination of sub-wavelength gratings (periodic microstructures) integrated with planar waveguides. They can be used for high-power laser applications for pulse compression, spectral stabilization, wavelength multiplexing, as well as polarization shaping. In this work, we investigate the laser-damage resistance of GWS based on Ta2O5/SiO2 multilayers at pulse durations of 500 fs and wavelength of 1030 nm. We particularly study the influence of the material of the multilayer sequence, the designed grating structure, and the operational conditions (angle of incidence and polarization of the laser beam) on the laser-damage resistance of the GWS. Comparison of measurements to simulation of the electric-field distribution in the structure reveals a good correlation between laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) values and electric-field enhancement in the structure. Based on this work, an optimized design has been defined to increase the LIDT of the GWS. An improvement of the LIDT of a factor 2 has been obtained.

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Funding

This work was partly funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) within the project Resogit and partly funded by the project Hiperdias which is an initiative of the Photonics Public Private Partnership and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant agreement no. 687880.

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  1. Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France

    Laurent Gallais

  2. Institut Fuer Strahlwerkzeuge, University Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 43, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Martin Rumpel, Tom Dietrich, Thomas Graf & Marwan Abdou Ahmed

  3. MarTec Photonics, University Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 43, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Martin Rumpel

  4. AMO GmbH, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mikro-und Optoelektronik, Otto-Blumenthal-Str. 25, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Michael Moeller

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Gallais, L., Rumpel, M., Moeller, M. et al. Investigation of laser damage of grating waveguide structures submitted to sub-picosecond pulses. Appl. Phys. B 126, 69 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-020-07419-2

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