Waveguide writing in bulk PMMA by femtosecond laser pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6108, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Watanabe, Wataru ^a   Sowa, Seiji ^a   Itoh, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coupler; Femtosecond laser; PMMA; Polymer; Refractive index change; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSPARENCY;

COUPLERS; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; PMMA; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33645978397     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.645457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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