Single-sweep laser writing of 3D-waveguide devices

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6994-7001

  Pospiech, Matthias ^a   Emons, Moritz ^a   Väckenstedt, Benjamin ^a   Palmer, Guido ^a   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC DEVICES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SILICA; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

BEAM-SHAPING; CHIRP PARAMETER; DYNAMIC VARIATIONS; FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; LASER WRITING; PHASE GRATING; PHASE MODULATOR; WAVEGUIDE DEVICE; WRITING PROCESS;

FUSED SILICA;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 77950239794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006994     Document Type: Article

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