Photonic functionalities with a new type of waveguides sustained by femtosecond laser inscribed fluorescent silver clusters in prepared glasses: From directional couplers to waveguide Bragg gratings (Conference Presentation)

Yannick G. Petit; Alain Abou Khalil; Jean-Philippe Bérubé; Sylvain Danto; Thierry Cardinal; Réal Vallée; Lionel Canioni

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13 March 2019 Photonic functionalities with a new type of waveguides sustained by femtosecond laser inscribed fluorescent silver clusters in prepared glasses: From directional couplers to waveguide Bragg gratings (Conference Presentation)

Yannick G. Petit, Alain Abou Khalil, Jean-Philippe Bérubé, Sylvain Danto, Thierry Cardinal, Réal Vallée, Lionel Canioni

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Proceedings Volume 10908, Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XIX; 109080T (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510631
Event: SPIE LASE, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Novel integrated photonics components are highly demanded to develop photonic integrated circuits, or sensing applications with lab-on-chip or lab-on-fiber approaches. Femtosecond laser inscription has demonstrated to be a very attractive approach being highly versatile as well as compatible with laser manufacturing technological transfer. In this framework, some of the innovations to come will result from optimized laser-based processing in prepared materials, namely in specialty glasses with a designed photosensitivity enhancement under laser irradiation. In this framework, we recently demonstrated a new type of waveguides. Here, the positive refractive index modification, labelled type A, is sustained by the laser-induced photochemistry of silver-containing phosphate glasses, with a non-trivial distribution that corresponds to the creation of fluorescent silver clusters. Some of the inner features of the refractive index structures and associated waveguides show mesoscale dimensions of a few hundreds of nanometers, which is of interest for produce sub-wavelength modifications. In this paper, we will present recent results concerning the exploitation of such new waveguides, namely with the investigation of curvature losses and the creation of directional couplers. Additionally, periodically modulated waveguides are considered to address laser-fabricated waveguide Bragg grating functionality. Such development is in progress, especially targeting reflectivity in the visible range.

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Yannick G. Petit, Alain Abou Khalil, Jean-Philippe Bérubé, Sylvain Danto, Thierry Cardinal, Réal Vallée, and Lionel Canioni "Photonic functionalities with a new type of waveguides sustained by femtosecond laser inscribed fluorescent silver clusters in prepared glasses: From directional couplers to waveguide Bragg gratings (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10908, Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XIX, 109080T (13 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510631

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