Shaping the colors of polychromatic light in femtosecond laser-written two-dimensional waveguide arrays

Author

Szameit, Alexander ; Garanovich, Ivan L. ; Heinrich, Matthias ; Sukhorukov, Andrey A. ; Dreisow, Felix ; Pertsch, Thomas ; Nolte, Stefan ; Tünnermann, Andreas ; Kivshar, Yuri S.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Appl. Phys., Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Jena

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We predict theoretically and observe experimentally new regimes of polychromatic beam shaping in laser-written periodically curved two-dimensional waveguide arrays, demonstrating selective control over the strength and dimensionality of spatial diffraction for different spectral components.

Keywords

laser materials processing; light diffraction; optical arrays; optical fabrication; optical waveguides; colors shaping; femtosecond laser; laser-written periodically curved 2D waveguide arrays; polychromatic beam shaping; polychromatic light; spatial diffraction; Fiber nonlinear optics; Lattices; Optical arrays; Optical beams; Optical coupling; Optical waveguide components; Optical waveguide theory; Optical waveguides; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the

Conference_Location

Sydney

Print_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610548

Filename

4610548