Active waveguides written in rare-earth doped materials with femtosecond laser pulses

ICALEO 2004 - 23rd International Congress on Applications of Laser and Electro-Optics, Congress Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Ams, Martin ^a   Withford, Michael J ^a   Dawes, Judith M ^a   Piper, James A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM COMPOUNDS; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; GLASS; LASER PULSES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; RARE EARTHS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ACTIVE ELEMENTS; ACTIVE WAVEGUIDES; DIRECT-WRITE TECHNIQUE; OPTICAL NETWORKING; PHOSPHATE GLASS; PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; RARE EARTH DOPED MATERIALS; WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 85087243480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2351/1.5060344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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