Femtosecond laser-inscribed optical waveguides in dielectric crystals: a concise review and recent advances

L Li, W Kong, F Chen - Advanced Photonics, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Femtosecond laser inscription or writing has been recognized as a powerful technique to
engineer various materials toward a number of applications. By efficient modification of …

Optical waveguides in crystalline dielectric materials produced by femtosecond‐laser micromachining

F Chen, JRV de Aldana - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Femtosecond‐laser micromachining (also known as inscription or writing) has been
developed as one of the most efficient techniques for direct three‐dimensional …

Discrete optics in femtosecond-laser-written photonic structures

A Szameit, S Nolte - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last few years arrays of evanescently coupled waveguides have been brought into
focus as a particular representation of functionalized optical materials, in which the …

Three-dimensional femtosecond laser processing for lab-on-a-chip applications

F Sima, K Sugioka, RM Vázquez, R Osellame… - …, 2018 - degruyter.com
The extremely high peak intensity associated with ultrashort pulse width of femtosecond
laser allows us to induce nonlinear interaction such as multiphoton absorption and tunneling …

Recent Advances in Femtosecond Laser Processing of LiNbO3 Crystals for Photonic Applications

B Zhang, L Wang, F Chen - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Femtosecond laser pulses have been extensively employed to achieve 3D micro‐and
nanofabrication in various materials for a broad variety of applications. LiNbO3 crystal is a …

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 …

Low loss depressed cladding waveguide inscribed in YAG: Nd single crystal by femtosecond laser pulses

A Okhrimchuk, V Mezentsev, A Shestakov… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A depressed cladding waveguide with record low loss of 0.12 dB/cm is inscribed in YAG: Nd
(0.3 at.%) crystal by femtosecond laser pulses with an elliptical beam waist. The waveguide …

Waveguide-integrated three-dimensional quasi-phase-matching structures

J Imbrock, L Wesemann, S Kroesen, M Ayoub, C Denz - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Nonlinear photonic structures with a modulated second-order nonlinearity are used widely
for quasi-phase-matched parametric processes. Creating three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear …

Highly efficient laser action in femtosecond-written Nd: yttrium aluminum garnet ceramic waveguides

GA Torchia, A Rodenas, A Benayas, E Cantelar… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We report continuous wave 1.06 μ m laser operation in an optical waveguide fabricated in a
Nd: YAG ceramic by femtosecond laser writing. Single mode and stable laser oscillation …

Optical waveguides fabricated via femtosecond direct laser writing: processes, materials, and devices

J Li, C Cao, Y Qiu, C Kuang… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As the most fundamental unit of photonic integration, optical waveguides offer the possibility
of developing efficient and practical photonic chips by facilitating the on‐chip integration of …