Physics-Consistent Generative Hologram Design for Multifocal Femtosecond Laser Fabrication
Abstract Multifocal phase holography offers a route to parallel femtosecond laser micro- and nanofabrication, but conventional weighted Gerchberg–Saxton (GSW) phase retrieval requires target-specific iterations and does not jointly optimize the optical quantities governing exposure quality. Here we introduce PhyFlow, a physics-consistent invertible flow model that generates phase-only multifocal holograms from target multifocal patterns in a single inverse pass. A multiscale invertible backbone learns target-to-phase correspondence, while differentiable Fourier optics constraints optimize diffraction efficiency, focal uniformity, and target-shape preservation. Across focal numbers and array scales, PhyFlow matches or surpasses GSW in energy concentration, focal balance, and shape fidelity while reducing per-hologram generation time by 98.8%. Optical-field measurements and femtosecond laser writing further show improved dot-area consistency, narrower line width distributions, and fewer nontarget written features. PhyFlow therefore connects rapid learned hologram generation with physically optimized fields and more uniform parallel fabrication.
Authors
- Yanlei Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1964-0043)
- Dong Qing Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0623-1515)
- Hao Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4988-3900)
- Chaowei Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7585-7787)
- Jincheng Ni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9308-4511)
- Jiawen Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3950-6212)
- Zeye Li
- Xiaoxu Rao
- Bowen Chen
- Wenji Yang
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Hefei University of Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nano Letters
- Published
- 2026-10-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6c03779
- Primary Topic
- Laser Material Processing Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00