Inscription and characterization of waveguides written into borosilicate glass by a high-repetition-rate femtosecond laser at 800 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1938-1950

  Allsop, Thomas ^a   Dubov, Mykhaylo ^a   Mezentsev, Vladimir ^a   Bennion, Ian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

FABRICATION PARAMETERS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; PROPAGATION LOSS; PULSE ENERGIES; QUANTITATIVE PHASE MICROSCOPIES; REPETITION RATE; SCANNING VELOCITY; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

BOROSILICATE GLASS;

EID: 77955605525     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001938     Document Type: Article

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