Single-and multimode waveguides in glasses manufactured with femtosecond laser pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4633, Issue , 2002, Pages 99-106

  Will, Matthias ^a   Nolte, Stefan ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Microstructuring; Ultrashort laser pulses; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DOPING (ADDITIVES); INTEGRATED OPTICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL GLASS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036406731     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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