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21 April 2017 Non-ablative femtosecond laser exposure of fused silica in the sub-50 fs regime (Conference Presentation)
Erica K. Block, Ben W. McMillen, Julien Nillon, Clemens Hönninger, Yves Bellouard
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Proceedings Volume 10094, Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XVII; 1009410 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256551
Event: SPIE LASE, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States
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In the non-ablative regime, femtosecond laser pulse duration is known to affect the nature of the modification induced in the microstructure of fused silica. It has been demonstrated than below 200 fs, two different regimes are found, one at low energy, leading to bulk densification while the second one – for higher energy, leading to self-organized structure - nicknamed nanogratings - that induce a net and localized volume expansion of the material. The first regime is particularly interesting for waveguides fabrication, although, so far, the reported refractive index gain remains modest, typically within 10-3 relative net increase that limits the level of compactness for photonics circuits making use of it. Here, we investigate further how shorter pulses, i.e. in the sub-50 fs range, can increase the level of densification and in turn, the net refractive index gain, and possibly lead to an improve process for photonics device fabrication. First results show that indeed, higher level of densification can be obtained, level that we quantify, and that can be further correlated to a net increase of refractive index.
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Erica K. Block, Ben W. McMillen, Julien Nillon, Clemens Hönninger, and Yves Bellouard "Non-ablative femtosecond laser exposure of fused silica in the sub-50 fs regime (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10094, Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XVII, 1009410 (21 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256551
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KEYWORDS
Femtosecond phenomena
Refractive index
Silica
Photonic devices
Photonic integrated circuits
Waveguides
Biomedical optics
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