• DocumentCode
    2250291
  • Title

    Influence of pulse width in ultrafast laser fabrication of embedded waveguides in chalcognide glasses

  • Author

    McMillen, Ben ; Wang, QingQing ; Zhang, Botao ; Chen, Tong ; Chen, Kevin ; Benayas, Antonio ; Jaque, Daniel

  • 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 embedded waveguide fabrication in Gallium Lanthanum Sulphide glasses using an ultrafast laser. The influence of pulse-width on the waveguide formation was studied and compared using 240-fs and 2-ps pulses, respectively.
  • Keywords
    chalcogenide glasses; gallium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; lanthanum compounds; laser materials processing; optical fabrication; optical waveguides; GaLaS; chalcognide glasses; embedded waveguide fabrication; pulse width influence; time 2 ps; time 240 fs; ultrafast laser fabrication; Glass; Laser beams; Laser modes; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides; 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
    5951029