Direct femtosecond laser written waveguides in bulk Ti3+: Sapphire

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7589, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gross, Simon ^a   Withford, Michael J ^a   Fuerbach, Alexander ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Laser machining; Laser materials processing applications; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND FLUORESCENCE; BULK MATERIALS; BULK TITANIUM; CHIRPED-PULSE; CRYSTALLINE LATTICE; EMISSION BANDWIDTH; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; IN-BETWEEN; LASER MACHINING; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; LASER POLARIZATION; LASER-INDUCED DAMAGE; LASING THRESHOLD; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; LOW THRESHOLDS; NEAR-FIELD; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; OUTPUT POWER; POLARIZED MODES; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; PUMP SOURCES; TUNABILITIES; TUNABLE LASERS; ULTRA-FAST;

COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FABRICATION; FLUORESCENCE; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LASERS; MACHINING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77951696965     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.841462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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