• DocumentCode
    2895853
  • Title

    Guiding light by soliton waveguides in photorefractive lithium niobate crystals

  • Author

    Vlad, V.I. ; Petris, A. ; Fazio, E. ; Bosco, A. ; Bertolotti, M.

  • Author_Institution
    NILPRP-Romanian Center of Excellence In Photonics, Inst.of Atomic Phys., Bucharest, Romania
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    164
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we demonstrate guiding of c.w. and femtosecond laser beams in waveguides induced by bright spatial solitons in lithium niobate crystals. Bright spatial solitons were written with low-power c.w. and pulsed laser beams in photorefractive lithium niobate crystals.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; lithium compounds; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; optical waveguides; photorefractive materials; LiNbO3; bright spatial solitons; femtosecond laser beams; photorefractive lithium niobate crystal; pulsed laser beams; soliton waveguides; Chemical lasers; Crystals; Laser beams; Lithium niobate; Optical waveguides; Photorefractive materials; Solitons; Waveguide lasers; Waveguide transitions; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8974-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1567952
  • Filename
    1567952