Fabrication and characterization of zirconium — Doped Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate

Author

Ciampolillo, M.V. ; Pozza, G. ; Bazzan, M. ; Argiolas, N. ; Zaltron, A. ; Bacci, L. ; Sada, Cinzia ; Nava, G. ; Minzioni, P.

Author_Institution

Dip. diFisica e Astron. “G. Galilei”, Univ. of Padova, Padua, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

12-16 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Lithium niobate is one of the most important optical materials due to its excellent nonlinear optical properties, its wide transparency window and its chemical stability. As this material is ferroelectric, its domain structure can be engineered using the well - known technique of electric field poling through patterned electrodes. This possibility allows realizing highly efficient nonlinear optical devices characterized by a periodic inversion of the spontaneous polarization (Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate, PPLN) based on the Quasi Phase Matching (QPM) scheme.

Keywords

light polarisation; lithium compounds; optical materials; optical phase matching; transparency; zirconium; LiNbO₃:Zr; domain structure; electric field poling; nonlinear optical devices; nonlinear optical properties; optical materials; patterned electrodes; periodic inversion; quasiphase matching; spontaneous polarization; transparency window; zirconium-doped periodically poled lithium niobate; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical harmonic generation; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Zirconium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0593-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801010

Filename

6801010