Use Of Laser Annealing To Achieve Low Loss In Corning 7059 Glass, ZnO, Si3N4, Nb205, and Ta205 Optical Thin-Film Waveguides
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng in Optical Engineering
- Vol. 22 (1) , 221117
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7973058
Abstract
We report considerable success in using the technique of laser annealing to reduce scattering in a variety of thin-film optical waveguides deposited onto thermally oxidized silicon substrates. For the materials Si3N4, Nb2O5, and Ta205, values of waveguide loss less than 1 dB/cm were achieved. Values of waveguide loss as low as 0.01 dB/cm have been measured for laser-annealed ZnO waveguides and for Corning 7059 glass waveguides which have been both laser annealed and had surface coatings applied.Keywords
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