Optical planar waveguides in photo-thermal-refractive glasses fabricated by single- or double-energy carbon ion implantation

Yue Wang; Xiao-Liang Shen; Rui-Lin Zheng; Hai-Tao Guo; Peng Lv; Chun-Xiao Liu

doi:10.1117/1.OE.57.1.017103

3 January 2018 Optical planar waveguides in photo-thermal-refractive glasses fabricated by single- or double-energy carbon ion implantation

Yue Wang, Xiao-Liang Shen, Rui-Lin Zheng, Hai-Tao Guo, Peng Lv, Chun-Xiao Liu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 57, Issue 1, 017103 (January 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.1.017103

Abstract

Ion implantation has demonstrated to be an efficient and reliable technique for the fabrication of optical waveguides in a diversity of transparent materials. Photo-thermal-refractive glass (PTR) is considered to be durable and stable holographic recording medium. Optical planar waveguide structures in the PTR glasses were formed, for the first time to our knowledge, by the C3+-ion implantation with single-energy (6.0 MeV) and double-energy ( 5.5+6.0 MeV), respectively. The process of the carbon ion implantation was simulated by the stopping and range of ions in matter code. The morphologies of the waveguides were recorded by a microscope operating in transmission mode. The guided beam distributions of the waveguides were measured by the end-face coupling technique. Comparing with the single-energy implantation, the double-energy implantation improves the light confinement for the dark-mode spectrum. The guiding properties suggest that the carbon-implanted PTR glass waveguides have potential for the manufacture of photonic devices.

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Yue Wang, Xiao-Liang Shen, Rui-Lin Zheng, Hai-Tao Guo, Peng Lv, and Chun-Xiao Liu "Optical planar waveguides in photo-thermal-refractive glasses fabricated by single- or double-energy carbon ion implantation," Optical Engineering 57(1), 017103 (3 January 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.1.017103

Received: 18 September 2017; Accepted: 13 December 2017; Published: 3 January 2018

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