Title :
Fabrication of depressed cladding waveguide Bragg-gratings in rare-earth doped heavy-metal fluoride glass
Author :
Gross, S. ; Lancaster, D.G. ; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. ; Kuan, K. ; Monro, T.M. ; Withford, M.J. ; Fuerbach, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Here we report on the first depressed cladding waveguide Bragg-gratings (DPCWBG) in ZBLAN glass fabricated by the laser direct writing technique.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; laser materials processing; optical fibre fabrication; optical glass; ZBLAN glass; depressed cladding waveguide Bragg gratings; laser direct writing; optical fabrication; rare earth doped heavy metal fluoride glass; Distributed feedback devices; Glass; Heating; Laser feedback; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943324
