Towards femtosecond laser written arrayed waveguide gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 21392-21402

  Douglass, G ^a,b   Dreisow, F ^c   Gross, S ^a,b   Nolte, S ^c   Withford, M J ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CENTRE FOR ULTRAHIGH BANDWIDTH DEVICES FOR OPTICAL SYSTEMS CUDOS   (Australia)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ADIABATIC TAPERS; CONTOURING; FREE PROPAGATION; INDEX CONTRASTS; INTEGRATED LASER; LOW-LOSS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84957550583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.021392     Document Type: Article

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