Nanoscale chiral surface relief of azo-polymers with nearfield OAM light

作者：Masuda Keigo; Shinozaki Ryo; Kinezuka Yoshinori; Lee Junhyung; Ohno Seigo; Hashiyada Shun; Okamoto Hiromi; Sakai Daisuke; Harada Kenji; Miyamoto Katsuhiko; Omatsu Takashige^*

来源：Optics Express, 2018, 26(17): 22197-22207.

DOI：10.1364/OE.26.022197

An optical vortex with orbital angular momentum (OAM) can be used to induce microscale chiral structures in various materials. Such chiral structures enable the generation of a nearfield vortex, i.e. nearfield OAM light on a sub-wavelength scale. thereby leading to further nanoscale mass-transport. We report on the formation of a nanoscale chiral surface relief in azo-polymers due to nearfield OAM light. The resulting nanoscale chiral relief exhibits a diameter of ca. 400 nm, which corresponds to less than 1/5-1/6th of the original chiral structure (ca. 2.1 mu m). Such a nanoscale chiral surface relief is established by the simple irradiation of uniform visible plane-wave light with an intensity of <500 mW/cm(2).

• 出版日期2018-8-20