Presentation Date:
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Location:
Optical Society of America Annual Meeting (Providence, RI)
Presentation Slides:
By tightly focusing femtosecond laser pulses, we achieve optical breakdown in a transparent material using only nanojoules of laser energy. Localized structural changes are produced in the focal volume and used for bulk micromachining. Using this technique, we fabricate single-mode optical waveguides and other photonics devices inside bulk glass.