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Linear and nonlinear guidance in an ultralow loss planar glass membrane

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Joly, N. Y., Birks, T. A., Yulin, A., Knight, J. C., & Russell, P. S. (2005). Linear and nonlinear guidance in an ultralow loss planar glass membrane. Optics Letters, 30, 2469-2471. doi:10.1364/OL.30.002469.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-C396-B
Abstract
We describe the fabrication and characterization of a free-standing silica glass membrane waveguide formed using fiber fabrication processes. The membrane has a thickness of 0.6 mm and a width of 60 mm and is many meters long. The optical attenuation is measured as 0.4 dB⁄m. Such attenuation outperforms that of conventional planar waveguides by several orders of magnitude.