TY  - JOUR 
AU  - Kifle, Esrom
AU  - Loiko, Pavel
AU  - Romero Vázquez, Carolina
AU  - Vázquez de Aldana, Javier R.
AU  - Zakharov, Viktor
AU  - Veniaminov, Andrey
AU  - Griebner, Uwe
AU  - Petrov, Valentin
AU  - Camy, Patrice
AU  - Braud, Alain
AU  - Aguiló, Magdalena
AU  - Díaz, Francesc
AU  - Mateos, Xavier
PY  - 2020
SN  - 0733-8724
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10366/147077
AB  - We report on the first active surface Y-branch waveguide in the ~2 μm spectral range. Depressed-cladding rectangular-cross-section surface waveguides with a splitting ratio of 1 × 2 are fabricated by femtosecond direct laser writing in a thulium (Tm...
LA  - eng
KW  - Crystals
KW  - Waveguide lasers
KW  - Ultrafast optics
KW  - Optical surface waves
KW  - Optical waveguides
KW  - Writing
KW  - Optical device fabrication
TI  - Ultrafast Laser Inscription and ∼2 μm Laser Operation of Y-Branch Splitters in Monoclinic Crystals
DO  - 10.1109/JLT.2020.2986474
T2  - Journal of Lightwave Technology
VL  - 38
M2  - 4374
ER  -