Femtosecond laser writing of a flat-top interleaver via cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 17894-17903

  Ng, Jason C ^a   Li, Chengbo ^a   Herman, Peter R ^a   Qian, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

BULK GLASS; CHANNEL SPACINGS; CONTRAST RATIO; FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; FLAT-TOP; INTERLEAVERS; MULTICOMPONENTS; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; THREE DIMENSIONS; TRANSFER MATRIX MODEL;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84864604359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.017894     Document Type: Article

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