DocumentCode
2228660
Title
Waveguide saturable absorbers in chalcognide glass fabricated by ultrafast lasers
Author
Chen, Tong ; McMillen, Ben ; Zhang, Botao ; Wang, QingQing ; Chen, Kevin ; Lin, Yuankun
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
fYear
2011
fDate
1-6 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We report a waveguide gap structure for nonlinear coupling, written in chalcognide glass with an ultrafast laser. The coupling efficiency between two waveguides is enhanced by the self focusing of shorter and stronger input pulse.
Keywords
chalcogenide glasses; gallium compounds; lanthanum compounds; laser materials processing; optical couplers; optical fabrication; optical glass; optical saturable absorption; optical self-focusing; optical waveguides; GaLaS; chalcogenide glass; nonlinear coupling; self focusing; ultrafast lasers; waveguide gap structure; waveguide saturable absorbers; Couplings; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Glass; Laser mode locking; Optical waveguides; Waveguide discontinuities; Waveguide lasers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1223-4
Type
conf
Filename
5950172
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