Optical waveguide fabrication with tailored femtosecond laser pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5448, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 992-999

  Nagata, Tetsuya ^a   Kamata, Masanao ^a   Obara, Minoru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Fused silica; Nonlinear absorption; Optical waveguide

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; FABRICATION; FUSED SILICA; GLASS; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; TRANSPARENCY;

FEMTOSECOND LASER; NONLINEAR ADSORPTION; PULSE SEPARATION; TRANSPARENT MATERIALS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 11844280361     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.546886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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