Fabrication of channel optical waveguide using CO 2 laser
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 15 (3) , 79-80
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19790058
Abstract
A CO2-laser-irradiated SiO2-Ta2O5 optical-film waveguide has been found to produce up to 2% refractive-index decrease. The usefulness of the CO2 technique has been demonstrated by fabricating a curved multimode channel waveguide with 1 dB/cm propagation loss in the thin film.Keywords
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