Shane M. Eaton

TL;DR: High-repetition rate femtosecond lasers are shown to drive heat accumulation processes that are attractive for rapid writing of low-loss optical waveguides in transparent glasses and accurately tracks the waveguide diameter as cumulative heating expands the modification zone above 200-kHz repetition rate.

TL;DR: Waveguide morphology and thermal modeling indicate that strong thermal diffusion effects at 200 kHz give way to a weak heat accumulation effect at approximately 1 microJ pulse energy for generating low loss waveguides, while stronger heat accumulation effects above 1-MHz repetition rate offered overall superior guiding.

TL;DR: Waveguide writing in fused silica with a novel commercial femtosecond fiber laser system (IMRA America, FCPA microJewel) and the influence of a range of laser parameters were investigated, finding that it was not possible to produce low-loss waveguides when writing with the fundamental wavelength of 1045 nm, but it was possible to fabricate telecom-compatible waveguide at the second harmonic wavelength of 522 nm.

TL;DR: In this article, the physical and chemical properties of microchannels fabricated by femtosecond laser processing technology in thermoplastic polymeric materials, including poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), polystyrene (PS) and cyclic olefin polymer (COP), were investigated.

TL;DR: The Roadmap is organized so as to put side by side contributions on different aspects of optical processing, aiming to enhance the cross-contamination of ideas between scientists working in three different fields of photonics: optical gates and logical units, high bit-rate signal processing and optical quantum computing.