Miniaturization and embedding of soliton-based electro-optically addressable photonic arrays

Author

D´Ercole, Angelo ; Palange, Elia ; DelRe, Eugenio ; Ciattoni, Alessandro ; Crosignani, Bruno ; Agranat, Aharon J.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing. Elettr. e dell´´Inf., Univ. dell´´Aquila, L´´Aquila

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Using top-electrodes, we demonstrate the soliton-based miniaturized integration of electro-optic devices in a photorefractive paraelectric bulk crystal. Self-trapping and beam manipulation though soliton electro-activation is achieved at quasi-digital voltages.

Keywords

electro-optical devices; integrated optics; optical self-focusing; optical solitons; photorefractive materials; beam manipulation; electro-optic devices; optical self-trapping; photonic array embedding; photonic array miniaturization; photorefractive paraelectric bulk crystal; quasidigital voltage; soliton based electro-optically addressable photonic arrays; soliton electro activation; Electrodes; Electrooptic devices; Geometry; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical solitons; Photonic crystals; Photorefractive effect; Voltage; (190.5330) Photorefractive nonlinear optics; (230.2090) Electro-optical devices;

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.2006.4628164

Filename

4628164