Type II high-strength Bragg grating waveguides photowritten with ultrashort laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 4182-4191

  Zhang, Haibin ^a   Eaton, Shane M ^a   Li, Jianzhao ^a   Nejadmalayeri, Amir H ^a   Herman, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; BOROSILICATE GLASS; BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; WAVEGUIDES;

LASER FORMATION; REFLECTION SPECTRA; WAVEGUIDE BIREFRINGENCE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34147174298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004182     Document Type: Article

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