Title :
Telecom-band directional couplers written with a high repetition rate femtosecond fiber laser
Author :
Eaton, Shane M. ; Chen, Wei-Jen ; Zhang, Haibin ; Herman, Peter R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Abstract :
A femtosecond fiber laser with 1.5-MHz repetition rate was used to write directional couplers inside bulk glasses for the first time in the 1550-nm band. Waveguide losses and coupling strengths are reported for borosilicate glass.
Keywords :
borosilicate glasses; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; optical directional couplers; optical fabrication; optical glass; optical losses; B2O3-SiO2; borosilicate glass; bulk glasses; coupling strengths; high-repetition rate femtosecond fiber laser; laser repetition rate; laser writing; telecom-band directional couplers; waveguide losses; wavelength 1550 nm; Directional couplers; Fiber lasers; Glass; Optical fiber couplers; Optical interferometry; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Telecommunications; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers; (160.2750) Glass and other amorphous materials; (320.2250) Femtosecond phenomena;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628674
