Title :
Ultrafast laser fabrication of low-loss waveguides in chalcogenide glass with 0.65 dB/cm loss
Author :
McMillen, Ben ; Zhang, Botao ; Chen, Kevin ; Benayas, Antonio ; Jaque, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
We present 0.65-dB/cm loss symmetric waveguides fabricated in Gallium Lanthanum Sulfide glasses using spatial and temporal shaped ultrafast laser pulses. Micro-Raman analysis was used to correlate optical loss versus laser-induced lattice damages.
Keywords :
Raman spectra; chalcogenide glasses; gallium compounds; lanthanum compounds; laser materials processing; optical lattices; optical losses; optical waveguides; GaLaS; chalcogenide glasses; laser induced lattice damages; low loss waveguides; microRaman analysis; optical loss; symmetric waveguides; temporal shaped ultrafast laser pulses; ultrafast laser fabrication; Glass; Loss measurement; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
