Fabrication of the refractive index gratings in optical glasses by filamentary propagation of femtosecond laser pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6403, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gaizauskas E ^a   Kudriasov V ^a   Vaicaitis V ^a   Sirutkaitis, V ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Conical waves; Diffraction grating; Fused silica; Light filament; Microfabrication; Refraction index; Self focusing

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FUSED SILICA; MICROFABRICATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL GLASS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CONICAL WAVES; LIGHT FILAMENTS; SELF FOCUSING; WORK CYCLES;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 34247328224     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.696134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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