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All-UV written integrated glass devices including planar Bragg gratings and lasers

All-UV written integrated glass devices including planar Bragg gratings and lasers
All-UV written integrated glass devices including planar Bragg gratings and lasers
One attractive route to low-cost integrated optical components is the use of direct UV writing. This technique may be applied to a wide range of materials including silica-on-silicon wafers, compound oxide glasses, directly bonded glass composites and GLS. This presentation will focus on the first of these material systems - silica-on-silicon. This has a number of attractive features including fibre compatibility, industrial acceptance, stability and most importantly for our work a photosensitivity depends light intensity and not the thermal effects found in many materials. Recent developments of the UV writing technique at Southampton have allowed the realisation of high quality Bragg gratings in silica-on-silicon by simultaneous writing of the channel waveguides and gratings (the direct grating writing technique). This approach together with wavelength detuning, allows an unprecedented range of wavelengths to be written under software control. Latest results will be presented covering laser operation in Neodymium doped channels, small angle couplers, sensors based on planar gratings and liquid crystal tunable devices.
9 pp
Smith, P.G.R.
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Smith, P.G.R., Emmerson, G.D., Gawith, C.B.E., Watts, S.P., Williams, R.B., Guilhot, D.A., Sparrow, I.J.G. and Adikan, M.F.R. (2005) All-UV written integrated glass devices including planar Bragg gratings and lasers. International Conference on Optics & Optoelectronics - ICOL 2005, Uttaranchal, India. 12 - 15 Dec 2005. 9 pp .

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One attractive route to low-cost integrated optical components is the use of direct UV writing. This technique may be applied to a wide range of materials including silica-on-silicon wafers, compound oxide glasses, directly bonded glass composites and GLS. This presentation will focus on the first of these material systems - silica-on-silicon. This has a number of attractive features including fibre compatibility, industrial acceptance, stability and most importantly for our work a photosensitivity depends light intensity and not the thermal effects found in many materials. Recent developments of the UV writing technique at Southampton have allowed the realisation of high quality Bragg gratings in silica-on-silicon by simultaneous writing of the channel waveguides and gratings (the direct grating writing technique). This approach together with wavelength detuning, allows an unprecedented range of wavelengths to be written under software control. Latest results will be presented covering laser operation in Neodymium doped channels, small angle couplers, sensors based on planar gratings and liquid crystal tunable devices.

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Published date: 2005
Venue - Dates: International Conference on Optics & Optoelectronics - ICOL 2005, Uttaranchal, India, 2005-12-12 - 2005-12-15

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Local EPrints ID: 42412
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/42412
PURE UUID: 76202b5f-c62d-431d-85b2-b4b990782721
ORCID for P.G.R. Smith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0319-718X
ORCID for C.B.E. Gawith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-3558

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Date deposited: 13 Dec 2006
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:12

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Author: P.G.R. Smith ORCID iD
Author: G.D. Emmerson
Author: C.B.E. Gawith ORCID iD
Author: S.P. Watts
Author: R.B. Williams
Author: D.A. Guilhot
Author: I.J.G. Sparrow
Author: M.F.R. Adikan

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