Symmetric waveguides in poly(methyl methacrylate) fabricated by femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 291-297

  Sowa, Seiji ^a   Watanabe, Wataru ^a   Tamaki, Takayuki ^a   Nishii, Junji ^b   Itoh, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; LASER PULSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SLITTING;

COUPLED BEAM; SLIT BEAM SHAPING METHOD; SPLITTING RATIO; WAVELENGTH;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 30344455595     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.14.000291     Document Type: Article

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