Photonic circuits written by femtosecond laser in glass: improved fabrication and recent progress in photonic devices

D Tan, Z Wang, B Xu, J Qiu - Advanced Photonics, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Integrated photonics is attracting considerable attention and has found many applications in
both classical and quantum optics, fulfilling the requirements for the ever-growing complexity …

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 …

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 …

Volume photoinscription of glasses: three-dimensional micro-and nanostructuring with ultrashort laser pulses

R Stoian - Applied Physics A, 2020 - Springer
Ultrafast laser photoinscription of optical materials has seen a strong development in the
recent years for a range of applications in integrated photonics. Fueled by its capability to …

Fabricating low loss waveguides over a large depth in glass by temperature gradient assisted femtosecond laser writing

D Tan, X Sun, Q Wang, P Zhou, Y Liao, J Qiu - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose a strategy of temperature gradient assisted femtosecond laser writing for
elaboration of low loss waveguides (WGs) over a large depth in glass. The matter flow …

Direct writing of birefringent elements by ultrafast laser nanostructuring in multicomponent glass

SS Fedotov, R Drevinskas, SV Lotarev… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Self-assembled nanostructures created by femtosecond laser irradiation are demonstrated
in alkali-free aluminoborosilicate glass. The growth of the induced retardance associated …

On the use of the Type I and II scheme for classifying ultrafast laser direct-write photonics

S Gross, M Dubov, MJ Withford - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
The use of the Type I and Type II scheme, first introduced and used by fiber Bragg grating
researchers, has recently been adopted by the ultrafast laser direct-write photonics …

Femtosecond-laser-written microstructured waveguides in BK7 glass

GY Chen, F Piantedosi, D Otten, YQ Kang, WQ Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
There is a deficiency of low-loss microstructured waveguides that can be fabricated with a
single laser-pass to minimize stress build-up, which can enable enhanced functionality and …

Transverse pump-probe microscopy of moving breakdown, filamentation and self-organized absorption in alkali aluminosilicate glass using ultrashort pulse laser

D Grossmann, M Reininghaus, C Kalupka… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present time and space resolved transverse pump-probe measurements of the free
electron and defect generation induced by nonlinear absorption of ultra short pulsed laser …

An investigation on 800 nm femtosecond laser ablation of K9 glass in air and vacuum

S Xu, C Yao, H Dou, W Liao, X Li, R Ding, L Zhang… - Applied Surface …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ablation rates of K9 glass were studied as a function of femtosecond laser fluences. The
central wavelength was 800 nm, and pulse durations of 35 fs and 500 fs in air and vacuum …