Coupling of light beams in hollow planar waveguides formed by nonlinear optical materials

Author

Dittrich, P. ; Montemezzani, G. ; Gunter, P.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

40

Abstract

Summary from only given. We demonstrate here, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, that highly absorbed ultraviolet light beams travelling in a hollow waveguide between two pieces of an electro-optical material can couple and exchange energy via the optical nonlinearity driven by the light distribution of the refracting waves. The effect is believed to be connected with the interband photorefractive effect.

Keywords

electro-optical effects; laser beams; multiwave mixing; nonlinear optics; optical waveguides; photorefractive materials; couple energy; electro-optical material; exchange energy; highly absorbed ultraviolet light beams; hollow waveguide; interband photorefractive effect; light distribution; optical nonlinearity; refracting waves; Electrooptical waveguides; Hollow waveguides; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical materials; Optical planar waveguides; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Photorefractive materials; Planar waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033405

Filename

1033405