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ArticleACS photonics2023

Enabling High Precision Gradient Index Control in Subsurface Multiphoton Lithography.

Alexander J Littlefield, Dajie Xie, Corey A Richards, Christian R Ocier, Haibo Gao, Jonah F Messinger, Lawrence Ju, Jingxing Gao, Lonna Edwards, Paul V Braun and 1 more

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Article in ACS photonics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Multiphoton and Harmonic Imaging of Microarchitected Materials.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Alexander J LittlefieldDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2348-9032
Dajie XieDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4792-3457
Corey A RichardsDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-4083
Christian R OcierDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Haibo GaoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3557-3592
Jonah F MessingerDepartment of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0775-7180
Lawrence JuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Jingxing GaoDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2963-3731
Lonna EdwardsDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Paul V BraunDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4079-8160
Lynford L GoddardDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0737-1205

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiphoton lithography inside a mesoporous host can create optical components with continuously tunable refractive indices in three-dimensional (3D) space. However, the process is very sensitive at exposure doses near the photoresist threshold, leading previous work to reliably achieve only a fraction of the available refractive index range for a given material system. Here, we present a method for greatly enhancing the uniformity of the subsurface micro-optics, increasing the reliable index range from 0.12 (in prior work) to 0.37 and decreasing the standard deviation (SD) at threshold from 0.13 to 0.0021. Three modifications to the previous method enable higher uniformity in all three spatial dimensions: (1) calibrating the planar write field of mirror galvanometers using a spatially varying optical transmission function which corrects for large-scale optical aberrations; (2) periodically relocating the piezoelectrically driven stage, termed piezo-galvo dithering, to reduce small-scale errors in writing; and (3) enforcing a constant time between each lateral cross section to reduce variation across all writing depths. With this new method, accurate fabrication of optics of any index between

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