posted on 2024-08-06, 09:55authored byLina Maigyte, Jose Trull, Vygantas Mizeikis, Mangirdas Malinauskas, Saulius JuodkazisSaulius Juodkazis, Crina M. Cojocaru, Marius Rutkauskas, Martynas Peckus, Valdas Sirutkaitis, Kestutis Staliunas, Hernán R. Míguez, Sergei G. Romanov, Lucio C. Andreani, Christian Seassal
We report and analyze experimental observation of the formation of a narrow, well collimated laser beam at optical frequency behind the woodpile photonic crystal fabricated using a femtosecond laser multi-photon polymerization technique. We show that the collimation depends on the input laser beam focusing conditions. We discuss the experimental results and give theoretical interpretation.