UV waveguides light fabricated in fluoropolymer CYTOP by femtosecond laser direct writing

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 446-450

  Hanada, Yasutaka ^a   Sugioka, Koji ^a   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAM EFFECTS; PHOTORESISTS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

AT-WAVELENGTH; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER IRRADIATION; FLUOROPOLYMER; PARTIAL BONDS; PROPAGATION LOSS; TRANSPARENT POLYMER; UV LIGHT; UV WAVEGUIDES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FLUORINE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORINE; LASERS; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 75249097815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000446     Document Type: Article

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