Surface engineered ferroelectric domains in congruent lithium niobate crystals

Author

Busacca, A.C. ; Apostolopoulos, V. ; Eason, Robert W. ; Mailis, S.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

642

Abstract

Summary from only given. A method for the construction of periodically inverted ferroelectric domains near the surface region of congruent LiNbO/sub 3/ and LiNbO/sub 3/ waveguides has been investigated. For periods as short as 1 /spl mu/m the domain inverted area overlaps well with the guided optical fields in these structures presenting a promising route for the fabrication of efficient first order QPM nonlinear optical devices. Further work on the conditions for the optimization of the mark-to-space ratio for the periodic domains as well as characterization of the waveguide-SHG devices is under way.

Keywords

domains; ferroelectricity; lithium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical phase matching; optical waveguides; 1 micron; LiNbO/sub 3/; congruent lithium niobate crystals; domain inverted area; first order QPM nonlinear optical devices; guided optical fields; optimization; periodically inverted ferroelectric domains; quasi phase matched; surface engineered ferroelectric domains; surface region; waveguide-SHG devices; waveguides; Crystals; Ferroelectric materials; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical devices; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Surface waves;

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.2002.1034426

Filename

1034426