Second harmonic and Raman imaging of ultrafast laser written LiTaO3 waveguides

Author

McMillen, Ben ; Chen, Kevin ; Jaque, Daniel ; An, Honglin ; Fleming, Simon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

This paper presents the fabrication of waveguides in lithium-tantalate using a 250-kHz repetition-rate ultrafast laser. Micro-Raman and second-harmonic microscopy studies indicate the preservation of optical nonlinearity in guiding regions formed by the laser-induced lattice compression.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; lithium compounds; optical fabrication; optical images; optical lattices; optical microscopy; optical waveguides; LiTaO₃; Raman imaging; laser-induced lattice compression; microRaman microscopy; optical nonlinearity; second-harmonic microscopy; ultrafast laser; waveguide fabrication; Laser theory; Lattices; Optical device fabrication; Optical devices; Optical microscopy; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers; (230.7370) Optical devices: Waveguides; (320.2250) Ultrafast optics: Femtosecond phenomena; (350.3390) Other areas of optics: Laser materials processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225605