Waveguides in Ni-doped glass and glass–ceramic written with a 1 kHz femtosecond laser

Hughes, MA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0877-5279, Homewood, KP, Curry, RJ, Ohishi, Y and Suzuki, T 2014, 'Waveguides in Ni-doped glass and glass–ceramic written with a 1 kHz femtosecond laser' , Optical Materials, 36 (6) , pp. 1604-1608.

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Abstract

We report waveguides in Ni-doped Li2O–Ga2O3–SiO2 (Ni:LGS) glass and glass–ceramic (GC) fabricated with a femtosecond (fs) laser with repetition rate of 1 kHz. When the glass is annealed to form a GC, the waveguides are erased. However, in the GC the waveguides are not erased by annealing. In Ni:LGS GC a 415 nm absorption band was created by fs laser waveguide writing due to the creation of Ni nanoparticles with an estimated diameter of a few nm. Raman and photoluminescence spectra of the bulk and waveguide structures were indistinguishable; however, fluorescence decay profiles indicated more long lifetime components in the waveguide compared to the bulk.

Item Type:	Article
Schools:	Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering
Journal or Publication Title:	Optical Materials
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0925-3467
Related URLs:	Publication
Funders:	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Depositing User:	Dr Mark Hughes
Date Deposited:	11 Nov 2015 10:29
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2019 15:00
URI:	http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/37019

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