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Writing of permanent birefringent microlayers in bulk fused silica with femtosecond laser pulses
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In this article, permanent birefringent structures with controllable microscopic dimensions are inscribed in pure fused silica platelets, and the bireringence properties of transmission gratings and of a quasi-uniform layer have been established.About:
This article is published in Optics Communications.The article was published on 1999-12-01. It has received 252 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Birefringence & Diffraction efficiency.read more
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Femtosecond filamentation in transparent media
Arnaud Couairon,André Mysyrowicz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the main aspects of ultrashort laser pulse filamentation in various transparent media such as air (gases), transparent solids and liquids are introduced and discussed.
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Ultrashort filaments of light in weakly ionized, optically transparent media
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the landmarks of the 10-odd-year progress in this field, focusing on the theoretical modeling of the propagation equations, whose physical ingredients are discussed from numerical simulations.
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Ultrafast Processes for Bulk Modification of Transparent Materials
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the mechanisms of and techniques for bulk modification of transparent materials using femtosecond laser pulses and discuss the fabrication of photonic and other structures in transparent materials, including waveguides, couplers, gratings, diffractive lenses, optical data storage and microfluidic channels.
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Filamentation and damage in fused silica induced by tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the damage tracks induced by tightly focused infrared femtosecond laser pulses in the bulk of a fused silica sample and observed two types of irreversible damage.
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Study of femtosecond-laser-written waveguides in glasses
TL;DR: In this paper, the femtosecond-laser-induced refractive index change (Δn) was investigated for fused silica and a borosilicate glass.
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Writing waveguides in glass with a femtosecond laser
TL;DR: The results suggest that multiphoton interactions occur in the glasses and that it may be possible to write three-dimensional optical circuits in bulk glasses with such a focused laser beam technique.
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Photowritten optical waveguides in various glasses with ultrashort pulse laser
TL;DR: In this article, permanent optical waveguides can be formed in various bulk glasses by photoinduced refractive index change with an ultrashort pulse laser, which can be fabricated by focusing the laser beam through an microscope objective and translating the sample parallel to the axis of the beam.
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Writing waveguides and gratings in silica and related materials by a femtosecond laser
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of 810 nm, femtosecond laser radiation on various glasses were investigated by focusing the laser beam via a microscope objective, transparent but visible, round-elliptical damage lines were successfully written inside high silica, borate, soda-lime-silicate, fluoride and chalcogenide glasses.
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Optical waveguides induced in inorganic glasses by a femtosecond laser
TL;DR: In this paper, photo-induced refractive index changes were continuously produced by focusing an ultra-short laser pulse through a microscope objective and translating the sample parallel to the axis of the laser beam.