Low loss photonic components in high index bismuth borate glass by femtosecond laser direct writing

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 16215-16226

  Yang, Weijia ^a   Corbari, Costantino ^a   Kazansky, Peter G ^a   Sakaguchi, Koichi ^b   Carvalho, Isabel C S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NIPPON SHEET GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; GLASS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

BISMUTH BORATE GLASS; LASER DIRECT WRITING; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; PHOTONIC COMPONENTS; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TRANSMITTED LIGHT; WAVEGUIDE PROPERTIES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BORIC ACID; GLASS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TIME;

BORATES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; LASERS; OPTICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54749083845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016215     Document Type: Article

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