Title :
Influence of pulse width in ultrafast laser fabrication of embedded waveguides in chalcognide glasses
Author :
McMillen, Ben ; Wang, QingQing ; Zhang, Botao ; Chen, Tong ; Chen, Kevin ; Benayas, Antonio ; Jaque, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
We report embedded waveguide fabrication in Gallium Lanthanum Sulphide glasses using an ultrafast laser. The influence of pulse-width on the waveguide formation was studied and compared using 240-fs and 2-ps pulses, respectively.
Keywords :
chalcogenide glasses; gallium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; lanthanum compounds; laser materials processing; optical fabrication; optical waveguides; GaLaS; chalcognide glasses; embedded waveguide fabrication; pulse width influence; time 2 ps; time 240 fs; ultrafast laser fabrication; Glass; Laser beams; Laser modes; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
