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    Area of Science:

    • Optics and Photonics
    • Materials Science
    • Nanotechnology

    Background:

    • Gradient-index (GRIN) lenses offer unique light-manipulating properties.
    • Fabricating complex GRIN microlenses with precise geometries remains challenging.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To demonstrate the feasibility of creating an elliptical gradient-index microlens using nanostructured glass.
    • To develop a novel fabrication technique for GRIN microlenses with specific elliptical dimensions.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized nanostructured glass technology with two distinct glasses at sub-wavelength feature sizes to achieve gradient index.
    • Employed a modified photonic crystal fiber-drawing technique for lens fabrication.
    • Introduced a novel final drawing stage involving collapsing air holes to achieve an elliptical lens shape from a spherical preform.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully fabricated a 75×125 μm elliptical gradient-index microlens.
    • Experimentally determined effective focal lengths of 160 μm and 260 μm for orthogonal axes.
    • Achieved excellent agreement between experimental focal lengths and theoretical predictions from effective medium theory and beam propagation simulations.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed nanostructured glass technology and modified fiber-drawing technique are feasible for creating gradient-index elliptical microlenses.
    • The fabricated microlenses exhibit predictable optical performance validated by theoretical models.
    • This work presents a promising method for fabricating custom GRIN microlenses for integrated optics and photonics applications.