• DocumentCode
    412131
  • Title

    F/sub 2/ laser-induced visible-and infrared-confining buried waveguides in fused silica

  • Author

    Valdivia, Christopher ; Wei, X. Midori ; Coric, Dragan ; Herman, Peter R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2003
  • Abstract
    Buried refractive index changes of 10/sup -4/ to 10/sup -3/ were written in fused silica with F/sub 2/ laser nanosecond-pulse ultraviolet radiation, forming visible- and infrared-confining cylindrical waveguides of 1.6 dB/cm loss and 7/spl times/10/sup -6/ birefringence.
  • Keywords
    birefringence; circular waveguides; colour centre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; infrared spectra; laser materials processing; optical waveguides; refractive index; silicon compounds; ultraviolet radiation effects; visible spectra; 0.38 to 0.78 micron; 0.7 to 100 micron; 10 to 380 nm; F/sub 2/ laser nanosecond-pulse; F/sub 2/ laser-induced infrared-confining buried waveguide; F/sub 2/ laser-induced visible confining buried waveguide; SiO/sub 2/; birefringence; fused silica; refractive index; ultraviolet radiation; Laser beams; Laser transitions; Optical losses; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Silicon compounds; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-748-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1298280