• 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