Waveguide-like structures written in transparent polycrystalline ceramics with an ultra-low fluence femtosecond laser

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1416-1424

  Castillo Vega, Gabriel R ^a   Penilla, Elías H ^b   Camacho López, Santiago ^a   Aguilar, Guillermo ^b   Garay, J E ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND (FS) LASER; FINE GRAINS; FLUENCES; FREE ELECTRON; FS LASER PULSE; HE-NE LASERS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; INCIDENT PULSE; IRRADIATED ZONES; LASER PROCESS; NEW MECHANISMS; OPTICAL CERAMICS; PER UNIT; POLYCRYSTALLINE CERAMICS; TRANSPARENT MATERIAL; VACANCY-RELATED DEFECTS; WAVEGUIDE WRITING; YSZ CERAMICS; YTRRIA-STABILIZED ZIRCONIAS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ZIRCONIA;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84870352337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001416     Document Type: Article

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