Ultrafast laser fabrication of low-loss waveguides in chalcogenide glass with 0.65 dB/cm loss

作者:McMillen Ben; Zhang Botao; Chen Kevin P*; Benayas Antonio; Jaque Daniel
来源:Optics Letters, 2012, 37(9): 1418-1420.
DOI:10.1364/OL.37.001418

摘要

This Letter reports on the fabrication of low-loss waveguides in gallium-lanthanum-sulfide chalcogenide glasses using an ultrafast laser. Spatial beam shaping and temporal pulse width tuning were used to optimize the guided mode profiles and optical loss of laser-written waveguides. Highly symmetric single-mode waveguides guiding at 1560 nm with a loss of 0.65 dB/cm were fabricated using 1.5 ps laser pulses. This Letter suggests a pathway to produce high quality optical waveguides in substrates with strong nonlinearity using the ultrafast laser direct writing technique.

  • 出版日期2012-5-1