Femtosecond laser inscription of low insertion loss waveguides in Z-cut lithium niobate

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 892-894

  Bookey, Henry T ^a   Thomson, Robert R ^a   Psaila, Nicholas D ^a   Kar, Ajoy K ^a   Chiodo, Nicola ^b   Osellame, Robert ^b   Cerullo, Giulio ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buried optical waveguides; Femtosecond laser writing; Lithium niobate (LN); Optical device fabrication

Indexed keywords

INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

FRESNEL REFLECTIONS; LASER WRITING; LITHIUM NIOBATE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34249803578     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.897534     Document Type: Article

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