Title :
Non-linear chalcogenide glasses and technologies for the development of ultra-fast chip-scale optical devices
Author :
Romanova, Elena ; Konyukhov, Andrey ; Furniss, David ; Muraviov, Sergey ; Andrianov, Alexey ; Gelikonov, Grigory ; Seddon, Angela ; Benson, Trevor
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham
Abstract :
Chalcogenide glasses are novel highly non-linear materials for photonics. Modification of optical glasses by high-intensity femtosecond pulses is a novel fast developing technology based on non-linear effects. In this paper, the advantages of using the method of femtosecond modifications for the fabrication of highly non-linear 3D photonic structures in bulk chalcogenide glasses are overviewed. Design and modelling of chip-scale highly non-linear structures for all-optical signal processing are discussed.
Keywords :
chalcogenide glasses; high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; nonlinear optics; optical fabrication; optical glass; 3D photonic structures; all-optical signal processing; laser processing; non-linear chalcogenide glasses; optical glasses; ultra-fast chip-scale optical devices; Glass; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical devices; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Photonics; Ultrafast optics; chalcogenide glass; laser processing; non-linear devices;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2625-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2626-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598703
