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 are far more than mere connecting elements in integrated optical
systems and circuits. Benefiting from their high optical confinement and miniaturized …

The field of optically pumped planar waveguide lasers has seen a rapid development over
the last two decades driven by the requirements of a range of applications. This sustained …

Over the last years, there has been tremendous progress with compact pulsed lasers based
on various solid-state gain media, such as crystals and glasses doped with laser-active ions …

Integrated optics, having the unique properties of small size, low loss, high integration, and
high scalability, is attracting considerable attention and has found many applications in …

Femtosecond laser direct writing (FLW) is recognized as a powerful tool for generating
optical waveguides for complex photonic integrated circuits in various transparent materials …

The layered two-dimensional (2D) materials with extraordinary optical properties play
important roles in the development of ultrafast photonics, in which mode-locking lasers with …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have generated great interest in the past few years opening
up a new dimension in the development of optoelectronics and photonics. In this paper, we …

Femtosecond laser‐based fabrication of integrated photonic crystal waveguides inside of a
transparent polymer is reported. In general, the fabrication of waveguides based on …

Direct inscription of structures by femtosecond‐laser pulses facilitates the flexible fabrication
of diverse optical channel waveguides in dielectric laser gain media. Among them, beam …