Telecom-band directional couplers written with a high repetition rate femtosecond fiber laser

Author

Eaton, Shane M. ; Chen, Wei-Jen ; Zhang, Haibin ; Herman, Peter R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A femtosecond fiber laser with 1.5-MHz repetition rate was used to write directional couplers inside bulk glasses for the first time in the 1550-nm band. Waveguide losses and coupling strengths are reported for borosilicate glass.

Keywords

borosilicate glasses; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; optical directional couplers; optical fabrication; optical glass; optical losses; B₂O₃-SiO₂; borosilicate glass; bulk glasses; coupling strengths; high-repetition rate femtosecond fiber laser; laser repetition rate; laser writing; telecom-band directional couplers; waveguide losses; wavelength 1550 nm; Directional couplers; Fiber lasers; Glass; Optical fiber couplers; Optical interferometry; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Telecommunications; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers; (160.2750) Glass and other amorphous materials; (320.2250) Femtosecond phenomena;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628674

Filename

4628674