Ready-to-use silica slab waveguides for pretreatmentless UV-fabrication of customized Planar Lightwave Circuits

Ready-to-use silica slab waveguides for pretreatmentles

F. Knappe, C. Aichele, S. Grimm, M. Alke, H. Renner, E. Brinkmeyer,
Ready-to-use silica slab waveguides for pretreatmentless UV-fabrication of customized Planar Lightwave Circuits
Conference on Bragg Gratings, Poling and Photosensitivity (BGPP), Sydney, Australia , pp. 207-209 (2005)

Abstract: Pretreatmentless UV-induced index changes of up to 9x10-3 are observed in germanium-free, boron-phosphorous doped silica layers. This fact may clear the way for UV-fabrication of planar lightwave circuits without hydrogen-loading or other presensitizations.

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