Writing of crystal line patterns in glass by laser irradiation

We examined the laser-induced crystallization to form the fresnoite type Ba2TiGe2O8 crystal line patterns in transition metal ion doped BaO–TiO2–GeO2 glass. Ba2TiGe2O8 crystal line was written in 0.6FeO–33.3BaO–16.7TiO2–50GeO2 glass by continuous wave yttrium–aluminum–garnet (YAG) laser irradiation. We obtained polarization dependence of Raman spectra in crystal line pattern. Second harmonic generation (SHG) indicated unique fringe patterns from Ba2TiGe2O8 crystal lines.