Proton exchange channel waveguides compatible with surface domain engineering in Lithium Niobate crystals

Author

Busacca, A.C. ; Cherchi, M. ; Sanseverino, S.R. ; Cino, A.C. ; Parisi, A. ; Stivala, S. ; Colace, L. ; Assanto, G.

Author_Institution

DIEET, Univ. di Palermo, Palermo

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

First experiments of proton exchange channel waveguides compatible with electric field surface periodic poling of congruent lithium niobate crystals are addressed. Picosecond nonlinear copropagating QPM-SHG measurements have been carried out on such structures.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; ion exchange; lithium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical phase matching; optical waveguides; LiNbO₃; QPM-SHG measurement; electric field surface periodic poling; lithium niobate crystals; picosecond nonlinear copropagation; proton exchange channel waveguides; surface domain engineering; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Protons; Surface morphology; Surface waves; (190.2620) Frequency conversion; (190.4390) Nonlinear optics, integrated optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627680

Filename

4627680