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Item Open Access Computer-generated holograms embedded in bulk silicon with nonlinear laser lithography(IEEE, 2016) Turnalı, Ahmet; Tokel, Onur; Makey, Ghaith; Pavlov, Ihor; İlday, Fatih ÖmerRecently, we have showed a direct laser writing method to form subsurface structures inside silicon by exploiting nonlinear interactions. Here, we demonstrate utilization of this phenomenon to create computer-generated holograms buried in silicon.Item Open Access Optical waveguides written deep inside silicon by femtosecond laser(OSA, 2017) Pavlov, Ihor; Tokel, Onur; Pavlova, S.; Kadan, V.; Makey, Ghaith; Turnalı, Ahmet; Çolakoğlu, T.; Yavuz, O.; İlday, Fatih ÖmerSummary form only given. Photonic devices that can guide, transfer or modulate light are highly desired in electronics and integrated silicon photonics. Through the nonlinear processes taking place during ultrafast laser-material interaction, laser light can impart permanent refractive index change in the bulk of materials, and thus enables the fabrication of different optical elements inside the material. However, due to strong multi-photon absorption of Si resulting delocalization of the light by free carriers induced plasma defocusing, the subsurface Si modification with femtosecond laser was not realized so far [1, 2]. Here, we demonstrate optical waveguides written deep inside silicon with a 1.5-μm high repetition rate femtosecond laser. Due to pulse-to-pulse heat accumulation for high repetition rate laser, additional thermal lensing prevents delocalization of the light around focal point, allowing the modification. The laser with 2-μJ pulse energy, 350-fs pulse width, operating at 250 kHz focused in Si produces permanent modifications. The position of the focal point inside of the sample is accurately controlled with pumpprobe imaging during processing. Optical waveguides of ~20-μm diameter, and up to 5.5-mm elongation are fabricated by translating the beam focal position along the optical axis. The waveguides are characterized with a 1.5-μm continuous-wave laser, through optical shadow-graphy (Fig. 1 a-b, e) and direct light coupling (Fig.1 c-d, f). The measured refractive index change obtained by quantitative shadow-graphy is ~6×10 -4 . The numerical aperture of the waveguide measured from decoupled light is 0.05.Item Open Access Strong interference in planar, multilayer perfect absorbers: achieving high-operational performances in visible and near-infrared regimes(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Ghobadi, Amir; Hajian, Hodjat; Bütün, Bayram; Özbay, EkmelLight-Matter Interactions at subwavelength-designed nanostructures have been the subject of intensive study in recent years. The realization of an ideal "blackbody" absorber is an emerging topic in nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics. An ideal black absorber is an object that harvests incoming light with near-unity efficiency. Based on their absorption spectral coverage, they are classified as narrow-band or broadband absorbers. This requirement can be achieved in bulky designs that have a thickness much larger than its light penetration depth as well as antireflective surface texturing.