1. Visible and near-infrared waveguides formed by double-energy proton implantation in magneto-optical glasses.
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Liu, Chun-Xiao, Shen, Xiao-Liang, Zheng, Rui-Lin, Guo, Hai-Tao, Li, Wei-Nan, and Wei, Wei
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ION implantation , *OPTICAL waveguides , *OPTOELECTRONIC devices , *BOROSILICATES , *PLANAR waveguides , *FINITE difference method - Abstract
Ion implantation is one of the most competitive methods for the fabrication of optical waveguide structures in optoelectronic materials. Tb-doped aluminum borosilicate glass has been demonstrated to be a type of magneto-optical glass with high Verdet constant. In this work, the proton implantation technique with energies of (500 + 550) keV and fluences of (1.0 + 2.0) × 10 ions/cm is performed to form planar waveguides in the Tb-doped aluminum borosilicate glass. The guiding modes of the fabricated waveguide were measured by the prism-coupling method at wavelengths of 632.8 and 1539 nm. The near-field light intensity distribution was measured by the end-face coupling method at the wavelength of 632.8 nm and calculated by the finite-difference beam propagation method at both 632.8 and 1539 nm. The optical properties of the double-energy proton-implanted magneto-optical glass waveguides show promise for use as multi-functional integrated optical devices in the visible and near-infrared bands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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