Glass-ceramics for photonics: Laser material processing

Author

Goyes, Clara ; Solarte, Efrain ; Valligatla, Sreeramulu ; Chiappini, Andrea ; Chiasera, Alessandro ; Armellini, Cristina ; Mazzola, Maurizio ; Varas, Stefano ; Carpentiero, Alessandro ; Scotognella, Francesco ; Pelli, Stefano ; Prudenzano, Francesco ; Vac

Author_Institution

Grupo IMAMNT, Univ. Autonoma de Occidente, Cali, Colombia

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Transparent glass-ceramics, activated by luminescent species, present an important class of photonic materials because their specific optical, spectroscopic and structural properties. Several top-down and bottom-up techniques have been developed for transparent glass ceramic fabrication. Among them, laser material processing plays an important role and many significant results have been obtained in the field of waveguide glass ceramics fabrication. Here, after a short description of the state of art regarding laser material processing for glass ceramics, we report on the specific use of CO₂ laser for the fabrication of transparent glass ceramic waveguides.

Keywords

laser materials processing; optical glass; optical waveguides; CO₂; glass-ceramics; luminescent species; optical properties; photonic materials; regarding laser material processing; spectroscopic properties; structural properties; transparent glass ceramic fabrication; transparent glass ceramic waveguides; waveguide glass ceramics fabrication; Annealing; Ceramics; Crystallization; Glass; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Waveguide lasers; CO2 laser; SiO2-HfO2; SiO2-ZrO2; attenuation coefficient; crystallization; laser material processing; planar waveguides; transparent glass-ceramics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193488

Filename

7193488