Performance of Ar+-milled Ti:sapphire rib waveguides as single transverse-mode broadband fluorescence sources

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 501-507

  Grivas, Christos ^a   Shepherd, David P ^a   May Smith, Timothy C ^a   Eason, Robert W ^a   Pollnau, Markus ^b   Crunteanu, Aurelian ^b   Jelinek, Miroslav ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ion beam applications; Laser ablation; Lithography; Loss measurement; Optical tomography; Optical waveguides; Rib waveguides

Indexed keywords

ARGON; COHERENT LIGHT; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ION BEAMS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0037341763     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.808149     Document Type: Article

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