• DocumentCode
    688730
  • Title

    Femtosecond laser-written couplers in fused silica fiber: Towards fiber cladding optical circuits

  • Author

    Cheng, Kyle H. Y. ; Grenier, Jason R. ; Herman, Peter R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Various means for coupling light from fiber core waveguide is examined to enable integration with fiber cladding optical circuits written by oil-immersion with femtosecond lasers. Coreless optical fiber and in-fiber Mach Zehnder interferometers are introduced.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; laser materials processing; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre couplers; silicon compounds; SiO2; coreless optical fiber; femtosecond laser-written couplers; fiber cladding optical circuit; fiber core waveguide; fused silica fiber; in-fiber Mach Zehnder interferometers; integration; light coupling; oil-immersion method; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833105