Polarization behavior of femtosecond laser written optical waveguides in Ti:Sapphire

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15035-15044

  Bai, Jing ^a,b   Cheng, Guanghua ^a   Long, Xuewen ^a,b   Wang, Yishan ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a   Chen, Guofu ^a   Stoian, Razvan ^c   Hui, Rongqing ^d  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^d University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SAPPHIRE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CENTRAL ZONE; GUIDING EFFECT; HEXAGON PATTERN; NANO SCALE; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; PARALLEL LINE; PERIODIC NANOSTRUCTURE; PHOTOINSCRIPTION; POLARIZATION BEHAVIOR; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; REGULAR PATTERNS; STRESS BIREFRINGENCE; STRESS INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE; TI:SAPPHIRE; TI:SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL; ULTRASHORT-PULSED LASER; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84863745282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015035     Document Type: Article

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