Title :
Manipulation of form birefringence in isotropic material
Author :
Shimotsuma, Yasuhiko ; Sakakura, Masaaki ; Kazansky, Peter G. ; Miura, Kiyotaka ; Hirao, Kazuyuki
Author_Institution :
Innovative Collaboration Center, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
Form-birefringent nanostructure composed of the self-organized oxygen defects can be created by light pulses with a width of 70 fs. Such rewritable and directionally controllable nanostructures have evolved by lowering threshold for defect formation.
Keywords :
Birefringence; Delay effects; Optical materials; Optical microscopy; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Thermal stresses; Ultrafast optics; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
