Title :
Femtosecond laser ablation of the nonlinear optical organic crystal DAST
Author :
Dittrich, Ph ; Bartlome, R. ; Montemezzani, G. ; Günter, P.
Author_Institution :
Nonlinear Opt. Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
We investigated fs ablation of 4-N,N-dimethylamino-4´-N´-methyl-stilbazolium tosylate crystals( DAST) with respect to its feasibility to waveguide fabrication. The depths and widths of ablated grooves were determined as a function of the fluence of the structuring laser beam.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser ablation; optical fabrication; optical materials; optical waveguides; organic compounds; 4-N,N-dimethylamino-4´-N´-methyl-stilbazolium tosylate crystals; DAST; ablated grooves depth; ablated grooves width; femtosecond laser ablation; laser beam fluence; nonlinear optical organic crystal; waveguide fabrication; High speed optical techniques; Laser ablation; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7734-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1313639
