Fabrication of three-dimensional 1x4 splitter waveguides inside a glass substrate with spatially phase modulated laser beam

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12136-12143

  Sakakura, Masaaki ^a   Sawano, Tsutomu ^b   Shimotsuma, Yasuhiko ^a   Miura, Kiyotaka ^a   Hirao, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b New Glass Forum   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; GLASS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SUBSTRATES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

FABRICATION TIME; FEMTOSECOND (FS) LASER; FS LASER; GLASS SUBSTRATES; HIGH PRECISION; LIGHT SPOT; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; PHASE MODULATED; PRECISE POSITIONING; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS;

GLASS LASERS;

EID: 77953547338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012136     Document Type: Article

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