Femtosecond laser modification of fused silica: The effect of writing polarization on Si-O ring structure

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 20029-20037

  Little, Douglas J ^a   Ams, Martin ^a   Dekker, Peter ^a   Marshall, Graham D ^a   Dawes, Judith M ^a   Withford, Michael J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; O RINGS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SILICON COMPOUNDS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

CHEMICALLY MECHANICALLY POLISHED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; FEMTOSECOND LASER MODIFICATION; LINEARLY-POLARIZED RADIATIONS; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; POLARIZATION STATE; REPETITION RATE;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 56749169398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020029     Document Type: Article

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