Optical properties of waveguides fabricated in fused silica by femtosecond laser pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 4360-4364

  Will, Matthias ^a   Nolte, Stefan ^a   Chichkov, Boris N ^b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

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EID: 0037143312     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.004360     Document Type: Article

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