Direct femtosecond laser waveguide writing inside zinc phosphate glass

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 7929-7936

  Fletcher, Luke B ^a   Witcher, Jon J ^a   Troy, Neil ^a   Reis, Signo T ^b   Brow, Richard K ^b   Krol, Denise M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS; LIGHT REFRACTION; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CONFOCAL MICRO-RAMAN; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER IRRADIATION; FOCAL VOLUME; GLASS COMPOSITIONS; GLASS NETWORK; LASER-PULSE ENERGY; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE; MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES; PHOTOINDUCED CHANGE; POLYPHOSPHATES; POSITIVE CHANGES; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE SCAN; TI:SAPPHIRE LASER SYSTEMS; ZINC PHOSPHATE GLASS;

GLASS LASERS;

GLASS; PHOSPHATE; ZINC DERIVATIVE; ZINC PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

GLASS; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOSPHATES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79955378926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007929     Document Type: Article

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