Title :
Direct ultrafast laser writing of buried waveguides in Foturan glass
Author :
Ho, Stephen ; Herman, Peter R. ; Cheng, Ya ; Sugioka, Koji ; Midorikawa, Katsumi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Femtosecond laser writing of buried waveguides was extended to Foturan glass. Thermal annealing yielded positive index changes for selective visible and infrared wavelengths.
Keywords :
annealing; high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; optical glass; optical waveguides; Foturan glass; buried waveguides; direct laser writing; femtosecond laser writing; positive index changes; thermal annealing; ultrafast laser writing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
