Ti:sapphire rib channel waveguide fabricated by reactive ion etching of a planar waveguide
Ti:sapphire rib channel waveguide fabricated by reactive ion etching of a planar waveguide
We report, to our knowledge, the first active channel waveguide in Ti:sapphire. We have created ~1.4µm high ribs in a ~10µm thick Ti:sapphire planar waveguide by reactive ion etching. Following excitation by an Ar-ion laser, the rib structure showed channel-waveguide fluorescence emission. The mode profiles and the beam-parameter values (M2) were measured. The coupling efficiency of fluorescence emission into a single-mode fiber was an order of magnitude higher than for fluorescence from unstructured planar regions of the waveguide. Such devices are of interest as low-threshold tunable lasers and as broadband light sources in low-coherence interferometry.
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Crunteanu, A.
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Pollnau, M.
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Jaenchen, G.
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Hibert, C.
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Hoffmann, P.
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Salathé, R.P.
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Eason, R.W.
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Grivas, Christos
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Shepherd, David
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2002
Crunteanu, A.
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Pollnau, M.
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Jaenchen, G.
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Hibert, C.
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Hoffmann, P.
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Salathé, R.P.
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Eason, R.W.
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Grivas, Christos
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Shepherd, David
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Crunteanu, A., Pollnau, M., Jaenchen, G., Hibert, C., Hoffmann, P., Salathé, R.P., Eason, R.W., Grivas, Christos and Shepherd, David
(2002)
Ti:sapphire rib channel waveguide fabricated by reactive ion etching of a planar waveguide.
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 75 (1), .
(doi:10.1007/s00340-002-0952-2).
Abstract
We report, to our knowledge, the first active channel waveguide in Ti:sapphire. We have created ~1.4µm high ribs in a ~10µm thick Ti:sapphire planar waveguide by reactive ion etching. Following excitation by an Ar-ion laser, the rib structure showed channel-waveguide fluorescence emission. The mode profiles and the beam-parameter values (M2) were measured. The coupling efficiency of fluorescence emission into a single-mode fiber was an order of magnitude higher than for fluorescence from unstructured planar regions of the waveguide. Such devices are of interest as low-threshold tunable lasers and as broadband light sources in low-coherence interferometry.
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Published date: 2002
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