Low-loss Type II waveguide writing in fused silica with single picosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4826-4834

  Zhang, Haibin ^a   Eaton, Shane M ^a   Herman, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FUSED SILICA; LASER PULSES; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CIRCUIT FABRICATION; LASER WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE-PULSE INTERACTION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33744530431     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004826     Document Type: Article

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