Confocal Raman imaging of optical waveguides in LiNbO3 fabricated by ultrafast high-repetition rate laser-writing

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13979-13989

  Ródenas, Airán ^a   Nejadmalayeri, Amir H ^b   Jaque, Daniel ^a   Hermann, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; ULTRAFAST LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

ADJACENT WAVEGUIDES; BURIED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; CONFOCAL RAMAN IMAGING; DEFECT CONCENTRATIONS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HIGH REPETITION RATE LASERS; LATTICE EXPANSION; PERIODIC DISTRIBUTION;

OPTICAL LATTICES;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NIOBIUM; OPTICS; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 51149106310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013979     Document Type: Article

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