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Novel photosensitive glasses

Novel photosensitive glasses
Novel photosensitive glasses
Optoelectronics and photonics are technologies of steadily growing importance, because they enable faster, more efficient ways of acquiring, storing, and transmitting information. Optoelectronics is the combination of electronic and optical effects in devices, whereas photonics deals with the development of all-optical components. Both technologies have already had an enormous impact in areas as diverse as telecommunications, manufacturing, retailing, medicine and entertainment. Despite this rapid progress, optoelectronics and photonics have their future ahead of them. The increasing importance of information in our society requires their development, enhancing the progress of the European telecommunication industry.

Fundamental devices in the field of optoelectronics and photonics are glass fibers and waveguides with diverse functions and properties. In the last decade, photosensitivity of glass fibers and waveguides has received much attraction. A high photosensitivity enables the imprinting of special structures into glasses by lasers as a result of refractive index changes. This phenomenon is used to write directly Bragg gratings and waveguides into glasses, which has an enormous impact on the manufacturing, tailoring and efficiency of optical devices.
Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H.
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Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Riziotis, C. and Taylor, E.R. (2001) Novel photosensitive glasses. 10th Workshop of Marie Curie Fellows, London, UK. 06 - 07 Sep 2001.

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Abstract

Optoelectronics and photonics are technologies of steadily growing importance, because they enable faster, more efficient ways of acquiring, storing, and transmitting information. Optoelectronics is the combination of electronic and optical effects in devices, whereas photonics deals with the development of all-optical components. Both technologies have already had an enormous impact in areas as diverse as telecommunications, manufacturing, retailing, medicine and entertainment. Despite this rapid progress, optoelectronics and photonics have their future ahead of them. The increasing importance of information in our society requires their development, enhancing the progress of the European telecommunication industry.

Fundamental devices in the field of optoelectronics and photonics are glass fibers and waveguides with diverse functions and properties. In the last decade, photosensitivity of glass fibers and waveguides has received much attraction. A high photosensitivity enables the imprinting of special structures into glasses by lasers as a result of refractive index changes. This phenomenon is used to write directly Bragg gratings and waveguides into glasses, which has an enormous impact on the manufacturing, tailoring and efficiency of optical devices.

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Published date: 2001
Venue - Dates: 10th Workshop of Marie Curie Fellows, London, UK, 2001-09-06 - 2001-09-07

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Local EPrints ID: 17108
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/17108
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Date deposited: 16 Sep 2005
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:54

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Author: H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem
Author: C. Riziotis
Author: E.R. Taylor

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