• DocumentCode
    3009628
  • Title

    Femtosecond Laser Written Waveguide Arrays with Tailored Supermodes

  • Author

    Nguyen, Michael N. ; Church, Kenneth H.

  • Author_Institution
    Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Evanescently coupled waveguide arrays are written in fused silica using femtosecond laser pulses. Array supermodes are tailored by adjusting the writing conditions of a common central core and agree with scattering matrix method simulations.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; nonlinear optics; optical arrays; optical couplers; optical waveguides; silicon compounds; SiO2; evanescently coupled waveguide arrays; femtosecond laser written waveguide arrays; fused silica; nonlinear materials processing; scattering matrix method simulations; tailored supermodes; writing conditions; Optical arrays; Optical coupling; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Pulse amplifiers; Refractive index; Silicon compounds; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452865
  • Filename
    4452865