Azo-polymer film twisted to form a helical surface relief by illumination with a circularly polarized Gaussian beam

A helical surface relief can be created in an azo-polymer film simply by illuminating circularly polarized light with spin angular momentum and without any orbital angular momentum. The helicity of the surface relief is determined by the sign of the spin angular momentum. The illumination of circula...

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Published in:Optics express 2017-05, Vol.25 (11), p.12499-12507
Main Authors: Masuda, Keigo, Nakano, Shogo, Barada, Daisuke, Kumakura, Mitsutaka, Miyamoto, Katsuhiko, Omatsu, Takashige
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:A helical surface relief can be created in an azo-polymer film simply by illuminating circularly polarized light with spin angular momentum and without any orbital angular momentum. The helicity of the surface relief is determined by the sign of the spin angular momentum. The illumination of circularly polarized light induces orbital motion of the azo-polymer to shape the helical surface relief as an intermediate form; a subsequent transformation to a non-helical bump-shaped relief with a central peak creates a final form with additional exposure time. The mechanism for the formation of such a helical surface relief was also theoretically analyzed using the formula for the optical radiation force in a homogeneous and isotropic material.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.25.012499