Curved-waveguide fabrication using femtosecond laser processing with glass hologram

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7589, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Suzuki, Jun'ichi ^a   Arima, Yasunori ^a   Yamaji, Masahiro ^a   Kawashima, Hayato ^a   Tanaka, Shuhei ^a  

^a Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer Generated Holography (CGH); Curved waveguide; Femotosecond laser processing; Glass hologram; Refractive index modification

Indexed keywords

AT-WAVELENGTH; BENDING RADIUS; CURVED WAVEGUIDES; FEMOTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING; FEMOTOSECOND LASERS; FEMTOSECOND LASER BEAMS; FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING; GUIDED LIGHT; LASER SHOTS; REFRACTIVE-INDEX MODIFICATION; RING BEAMS; RING WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE FABRICATION;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; FABRICATION; FUSED SILICA; GLASS; GLASS LASERS; HOLOGRAMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LASER RECORDING; LIGHT REFRACTION; LITHOGRAPHY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SILICA; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951693714     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.841422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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