Evanescent coupling in buried planar waveguide arrays written by a femtosecond laser in neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Nd:YLiF 4)

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 49, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Xiaoyu ^a   Qu, Shiliang ^a   Tan, Yang ^b   Chen, Feng ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACT DEVICES; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; COUPLING CONSTANTS; EVANESCENT COUPLING; FABRICATION PARAMETERS; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; LASER ACTION; LITHIUM FLUORIDE; PLANAR WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; WAVEGUIDE FORMATION; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

LITHIUM; LUMINESCENCE; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 82455186331     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/44/49/495101     Document Type: Article

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