Femtosecond irradiation induced refractive-index changes and channel waveguiding in bulk Ti3+:sapphire

Apostolopoulos, V. and Laversenne, L. and Colomb, T. and Depeursinge, C. and Salathé, R.P. and Pollnau, M. and Osellame, R. and Cerullo, G. and Laporta, P. (2004) Femtosecond irradiation induced refractive-index changes and channel waveguiding in bulk Ti3+:sapphire. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO '04, May 16-21, 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Abstract:	Femtosecond writing of refractive-index changes in sapphire is demonstrated by doping the crystal with an appropriate ion (here: Ti3+) that reduces the threshold of the process. Passive and active buried channel waveguiding is demonstrated.
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Copyright:	© 2004 IEEE
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