Slit beam shaping method for femtosecond laser direct-write fabrication of symmetric waveguides in bulk glasses

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5676-5681

  Ams, M ^a   Marshall, G D ^a   Spence, D J ^a   Withford, M J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; LASER PULSES; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOSPHATES; PHOTONS; SOLID STATE LASERS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; PERPENDICULAR WRITING; PHOSPHATE GLASS; PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 23744438964     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005676     Document Type: Article

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