Photopolymerization with high-order Bessel light beams

Yoshihiko Arita; Junhyung Lee; Haruki Kawaguchi; Reimon Matsuo; Katsuhiko Miyamoto; Kishan Dholakia; Takashige Omatsu

doi:10.1364/OL.396012

Photopolymerization with high-order Bessel light beams

Yoshihiko Arita^*, Junhyung Lee, Haruki Kawaguchi, Reimon Matsuo, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Kishan Dholakia, Takashige Omatsu^*

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We study photopolymerization with high-order Bessel light beams with phase singularities on-axis. Self-trapping and self-focusing of propagation-invariant light beams in a photopolymer allow the fabrication of extended helical microfibers with a length scale of a centimeter, which is more than an order of magnitude larger than the propagation distance of the Bessel light beams. We show the evolution of microfibers rotating at a rate proportional to the incident optical power, while the periodicity of the helical structures remains constant, irrespective of the laser power. This suggests that optical momentum transfer plays a predominant role in the growth and rotation of such fiber structures.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4080-4083
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	45
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.396012
Publication status	Published - 15 Jul 2020

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