Direct laser writing of near-IR step-index buried channel waveguides in rare earth doped YAG

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3395-3397

  Rodenas, A ^a   Benayas, A ^b   MacDonald, J R ^a   Zhang, J ^c   Tang, D Y ^c   Jaque, D ^a,b   Kar, A K ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Fluorescence Imaging Group   (Spain)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIED CHANNELS; CRYSTALLINE MATRICES; DIRECT LASER WRITING; NEAR-IR; POLYCRYSTALLINE CERAMICS; PROPAGATION LOSS; RARE EARTH DOPED; SINGLE MODE; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE; YAG;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; ERBIUM; HOLMIUM; LIGHT REFRACTION; PHOTOMAPPING; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; PULSE GENERATORS; RARE EARTHS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 80052436559     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.003395     Document Type: Article

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