A method for one-step field-assisted silver-sodium ion exchange is proposed for the preparation of buried multimode optical strip waveguides in glass. Silver ions were supplied by a silver strip. A sodium nitrate melt was used as the anode, as well as for waveguide burial. The method provides good control over the waveguide cross-section.
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B. Pantchev (1987) studied this question.