Ultrafast laser fabrication of 3D photonic components in flexible glasses

Author

Sheng Huang ; Mingshan Li ; Chen, Kevin P. ; Garner, Sean M. ; Ming-Jun Li ; Cimo, Patrick

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

9-13 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrated the first flexible photonics lightwave circuits in glasses. The waveguide was written in ≤100μm thick Corning® Willow® Glass by a spatially and temporally shaped femtosecond ultrafast laser beam with processing speed up to 50mm/s. The flexible glass waveguide shows superior loss performance of 0.11dB/cm at λ=1550nm, with negligible bending loss down to a radius of 6.7cm.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; optical fabrication; optical glass; optical losses; optical pulse shaping; optical waveguides; 3D photonic components; Corning Willow glass; flexible glass waveguide; flexible photonics lightwave circuits; loss performance; processing speed; spatially shaped femtosecond ultrafast laser beam; temporally shaped femtosecond ultrafast laser beam; ultrafast laser fabrication; wavelength 1550 nm; Glass; Laser beams; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Substrates; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-5575-2994-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1364/OFC.2014.M3K.4

Filename

6886632