Silver film ion-exchanged Er-doped waveguide lasers and photowritten waveguide gratings in phosphate glass

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6183, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yliniemi, Sanna ^a   Albert, Jacques ^b   Laronche, Albane ^b   Wang, Qing ^c   Honkanen, Seppo ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ion exchange; Phosphate glass; UV writing; Waveguide gratings; Waveguide lasers

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; ION EXCHANGE; LASERS; SILVER;

PHOSPHATE GLASS; UV WRITING; WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33746860329     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.665028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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