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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 43, Issue 11, Pages 2523-2526Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.002523
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- Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de Espana [AEI/FEDER MAT2017-87035-C2-1-P, MAT2015-65274-R, TEC2014-52642-C2-1-R, TEC2015-69916-C2-1-R]
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) [474023]
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The design and performance of borate glass samples compositionally pre-designed to be femtosecond laser writable via laser-induced ion migration is reported in this Letter. It is demonstrated that borate glasses modified on purpose with small amounts of La2O3 and Na2O can be straightforwardly used to produce high-index contrast (Delta n) waveguides by femtosecond-laser-assisted ion migration. The positive Delta n of the waveguides is caused by the local enrichment of La2O3 in the guiding region with a slope of 8 center dot 10(-3) (mol. %)(-1). The value of this is consistent with numerical aperture measurements of the waveguides and local compositional measurements at the guiding region performed by energy-dispersive x-ray micro-analysis. The maximum achievable Delta n values can be controlled through the initial La2O3 content of the glass. Maximum Delta n values > 10(-2) for samples with just 5.5 mol. % of La2O3 have been produced. This compositional design approach could be potentially used to produce highly efficient femtosecond laser writeable glasses in other glass families. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America
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