Broadband directional couplers fabricated in bulk glass with high repetition rate femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11470-11480

  Chen, Wei Jen ^a   Eaton, Shane M ^a   Zhang, Haibin ^a   Herman, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; FIBER LASERS; GLASS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSE REPETITION RATE; ULTRAFAST LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

3-D OPTICAL CIRCUITS; ADJACENT WAVEGUIDES; BROADBAND DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; HIGH REPETITION RATE; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

GLASS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLASS; LASERS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 47849128726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011470     Document Type: Article

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