Bragg gratings made with ultrafast radiation in crystal waveguides; lithium niobate, sapphire and YAG Bragg gratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6796, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Grobnic, Dan ^a   Mihailov, Stephen J ^a   Smelser, Christopher W ^a  

^a Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bragg grating; Femtosecond; Lthium niob te; Sapphire; Waveguide; YAG

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLID STATE LASERS; SUBSTRATES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CRYSTALLINE OPTICAL WAVEGUIDING; LTHIUM NIOBÁTE;

SAPPHIRE;

EID: 43149097401     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.778907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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