• DocumentCode
    3025575
  • Title

    Experimental observation of modulational instability in the 1st and 2nd band of a self-defocusing nonlinear waveguide array

  • Author

    Rüter, Christian E. ; Wisniewski, Jürgen ; Kip, Detlef

  • Author_Institution
    Clausthal Univ. of Technol., Clausthal-Zellerfeld
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We observed experimentally discrete modulational instability within the first two bands in a permanent nonlinear waveguide array fabricated in an iron-doped photorefractive lithium niobate crystal.
  • Keywords
    iron; lithium compounds; nonlinear optics; optical materials; optical modulation; optical waveguides; photorefractive materials; LiNbO3:Fe; discrete modulational instability; permanent nonlinear waveguide array; photorefractive crystal; self-defocusing nonlinear waveguide array; Lithium niobate; Modulation coding; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical propagation; Optical solitons; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Photorefractive materials; Pulse modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453660
  • Filename
    4453660