High speed fabrication of optical waveguides inside glasses using a high rep.-rate fiber CPA system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5339, Issue , 2004, Pages 168-174

  Will, Matthias ^a   Burghoff, Jonas ^a   Limpert, Jens ^a   Schreiber, Thomas ^a   Nolte, Stefan ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Integrated optical devices; Ultrafast lasers; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GLASS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

CRYSTALLINE MEDIA; INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONIC STRUCTURES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 5444249185     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.537370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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