Femtosecond laser micromachining of lithium niobate depressed cladding waveguides

We report on the fabrication and characterization of femtosecond laser micromachined depressed cladding waveguides in lithium niobate crystal. The cladding structures support two-dimensional guidance of light from the visible to the mid-infrared spectral regimes. Particularly, singlemode propagation...

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Autores: He, Ruiyun, An, Qiang, Jia, Yuechen, Castillo Vega, Gabriel Roberto, Vázquez de Aldana, Javier R., Chen, Feng
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/123367
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/123367
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Waveguides
Femtosecond lasers
Integrated optics
2209.10 Láseres
2209.13 Óptica no lineal
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Sumario:We report on the fabrication and characterization of femtosecond laser micromachined depressed cladding waveguides in lithium niobate crystal. The cladding structures support two-dimensional guidance of light from the visible to the mid-infrared spectral regimes. Particularly, singlemode propagation of light at a wavelength of 4 μm has been achieved for the waveguides with diameter of 50 μm. It is also found that the thermal annealing treatment reduces the propagation loss lower than 0.5 dB/cm at 1.064 μm, exhibiting good transmission properties for photonic applications.