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Nanofabrication

Driven by feedback, unlimited by diffraction

Nature Photonics volume 18, pages 771–772 (2024)Cite this article

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By exploiting nonlinear feedback arising from the interaction of ultrafast laser pulses, self-organized nanolines that appear to defy the limits of diffraction are shown to cut, dice, and structure optical materials, fabricating true zero-order sapphire waveplates and crystalline micro-prisms.

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Fig. 1: Nonlinear laser–matter interaction mechanism.

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    Fatih Ömer Ilday

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