Fabrication of photonic devices directly written within glass using a femtosecond laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4224-4229

  Sohn, Ik Bu ^a   Lee, Man Seop ^a   Woo, Jeong Sik ^b   Lee, Sang Man ^b   Chung, Jeong Yong ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Phoco Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; GLASS; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

3-D OPTICAL MEMORY; OPTICAL SPLITTER; OUTPUT FIELD PATTERN; PASSIVE ALIGNMENT;

LASERS;

EID: 21244492328     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004224     Document Type: Article

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