Waveguides fabricated by femtosecond laser exploiting both depressed cladding and stressinduced guiding core

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 15522-15529

  Dong, Ming Ming ^a,b   Wang, Cheng Wei ^a,b   Wu, Zheng Xiang ^b   Zhang, Yang ^a,b   Pan, Huai Hai ^a,b   Zhao, Quan Zhong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; FLUORESCENCE IMAGE; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; NEODYMIUM-DOPED PHOSPHATE GLASS; NUMERICAL APERTURE; OPTICAL CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; WAVEGUIDE SPLITTERS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84879919801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.015522     Document Type: Article

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