Ultrafast laser direct writing in glass: thermal accumulation engineering and applications

D Tan, B Zhang, J Qiu - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrafast laser direct writing (ULDW) is explored as a facile technique to induce
unprecedented physical phenomena and functional structures three dimensionally in glass …

Laser written circuits for quantum photonics

T Meany, M Gräfe, R Heilmann… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The femtosecond laser direct‐writing (FLDW) of waveguide circuits in glasses has seen
interest from a number of fields over the previous 20 years. It has evolved from a curiosity to …

Ultrafast-laser-inscribed 3D integrated photonics: challenges and emerging applications

S Gross, MJ Withford - Nanophotonics, 2015 - degruyter.com
Since the discovery that tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses can induce a highly
localised and permanent refractive index modification in a large number of transparent …

Femtosecond laser induced phenomena in transparent solid materials: Fundamentals and applications

D Tan, KN Sharafudeen, Y Yue, J Qiu - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with transparent materials is a topic that
has caused great interest of scientists over the past two decades. It will continue to be a …

Nonlinear increase, invisibility, and sign inversion of a localized fs-laser-induced refractive index change in crystals and glasses

J Lapointe, JP Bérubé, Y Ledemi, A Dupont… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Multiphoton absorption via ultrafast laser focusing is the only technology that allows a three-
dimensional structural modification of transparent materials. However, the magnitude of the …

Low loss mid-infrared ZBLAN waveguides for future astronomical applications

S Gross, N Jovanovic, A Sharp, M Ireland… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Photonic technologies will be at the heart of future terrestrial planet hunting interferometers.
In particular the mid-infrared spectral region between 3.5–4.2 μm is the ideal window for …

Mid-infrared astrophotonics: study of ultrafast laser induced index change in compatible materials

A Arriola, S Gross, M Ams, T Gretzinger… - Optical Materials …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The mid-infrared wavelength regime 3.5–4.1 μm, known as the astronomical L'band is of
special interest for exoplanet hunting. Mid-IR compatible photonic technologies are an …

Revisiting ultrafast laser inscribed waveguide formation in commercial alkali-free borosilicate glasses

TT Fernandez, S Gross, A Arriola, K Privat… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Alkali-free borosilicate glasses are one of the most used dielectric platforms for ultrafast
laser inscribed integrated photonics. Femtosecond laser written waveguides in commercial …

Fabricating waveguide Bragg gratings (WBGs) in bulk materials using ultrashort laser pulses

M Ams, P Dekker, S Gross, MJ Withford - Nanophotonics, 2017 - degruyter.com
Abstract Optical waveguide Bragg gratings (WBGs) can be created in transparent materials
using femtosecond laser pulses. The technique is conducted without the need for …

Epsilon-near-zero medium for optical switches in a monolithic waveguide chip at 1.9 μm

X Jiang, H Lu, Q Li, H Zhou, S Zhang, H Zhang - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
A saturable absorber is a building block for integrated ultrafast photonics and passive optical
circuits. However, options currently available suffer from the bottlenecks of the necessity for …