Femtosecond laser micromachining of waveguides in silicone-based hydrogel polymers

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3100-3108

  Ding, Li ^a,b   Blackwell, Richard I ^a,b   Künzler, Jay F ^a,b   Knox, Wayne H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b BAUSCH AND LOMB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGELS; POLYMERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SAPPHIRE; SILICONES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVEGUIDES;

FEMTOSECOND LASER MICROMACHINING; HYDROGEL POLYMERS; PULSE ENERGIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; REPETITION RATE; TI:SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS; WATER ENVIRONMENTS; WAVEGUIDE PROPAGATION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 49649119949     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.003100     Document Type: Article

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