Flexible glass flat-fibre chips and femtosecond laser inscription as enabling technologies for photonic devices

Christos Riziotis; Kyriacos Kalli; Christos Markos; Andreas Posporis; Charalambos Koutsides; Andrew S. Webb; Christopher Holmes; James C. Gates; Jayanta K. Sahu; Peter G. R. Smith

doi:10.1117/12.2039643

7 March 2014 Flexible glass flat-fibre chips and femtosecond laser inscription as enabling technologies for photonic devices

Christos Riziotis, Kyriacos Kalli, Christos Markos, Andreas Posporis, Charalambos Koutsides, Andrew S. Webb, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gates, Jayanta K. Sahu, Peter G. R. Smith

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Proceedings Volume 8982, Optical Components and Materials XI; 89820G (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039643
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The potential of a new class of multifunctional photonic circuits is demonstrated by femtosecond laser micro-machining and inscription of micro-optical structures, such as ring and disk resonators, Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and microfluidic devices, in a flexible flat-fibre chip. Additional filling of surface channels with functional materials is employed towards sensing applications. Furthermore, direct write femtosecond-laser inscribed Bragg gratings were written in the Ge-doped core of flat-fibre enabling a number of relevant applications. The flat-fibre platform offers a unique degree of freedom by allowing surface and sub-surface devices to be integrated onto an a single optical chip with the potential for straightforward incorporation into integrated photonic circuits or optofluidic devices.

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Christos Riziotis, Kyriacos Kalli, Christos Markos, Andreas Posporis, Charalambos Koutsides, Andrew S. Webb, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gates, Jayanta K. Sahu, and Peter G. R. Smith "Flexible glass flat-fibre chips and femtosecond laser inscription as enabling technologies for photonic devices", Proc. SPIE 8982, Optical Components and Materials XI, 89820G (7 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039643

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