High fidelity waveguides through vitreous media recomposition for next generation photonic devices

T. Toney Fernandez; Andrew Ross-Adams; Mark Bakovic; Jens Ulrich Thomas; Oliver Hochrein; Hadi Mahmodi; Irina Kabakova; Karen Privat; Michael Withford; Simon Gross

doi:10.1002/adom.202403427

High fidelity waveguides through vitreous media recomposition for next generation photonic devices

T. Toney Fernandez^*, Andrew Ross-Adams, Mark Bakovic, Jens Ulrich Thomas, Oliver Hochrein, Hadi Mahmodi, Irina Kabakova, Karen Privat, Michael Withford, Simon Gross

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Abstract

A newly designed optical aluminosilicate glass that supports femotsecond laser written ultra-low loss optical waveguides is presented in this paper. Propagation losses as low as −0.020 ± 0.003 and −0.037 ± 0.003 dB cm⁻¹ at 1310 and 1550 nm, respectively, are enabled by engineering the glass composition. Raman, Brillouin and electron microscopies are used to understand the origins of femtosecond laser-induced refractive index changes.

Original language	English
Article number	2403427
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Advanced Optical Materials
Volume	13
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202403427
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2025

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© 2025 The Author(s). Advanced Optical Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

Keywords

Brillouin scattering
electron probe microanalysis
photonic integrated circuits
refractive index engineering
ultra-low loss optical waveguides
ultrafast light–matter interaction

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