Optical gratings embedded in photosensitive glass by photochemical reaction using a femtosecond laser

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1809-1816

  Cheng, Ya ^a   Sugioka, Koji ^a,b   Masuda, Masashi ^a,b   Shihoyama, Kazuhiko ^c   Toyoda, Koichi ^b   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Hoya Photonics Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTOSENSITIVE GLASS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; GLASS AND OTHER AMORPHOUS PARTICLES; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 2942750109     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001809     Document Type: Article

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