• DocumentCode
    689423
  • Title

    Surface damage reduction on UV direct-write domains engineered LiNbO3

  • Author

    Boes, A. ; Crasto, T. ; Steigerwald, H. ; Sivan, V. ; Soergel, E. ; Mitchell, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Ultra-high Bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Thin-film coating of LiNbO3 crystals with chromium was found to greatly enhance the usefulness of UV direct-written domains: the surface damage is strongly reduced thus improving the quality of the, moreover deeper and wider domains.
  • Keywords
    antireflection coatings; chromium; electric domains; lithium compounds; optical materials; LiNbO3; UV direct-write domains; surface damage reduction; thin-film coating; Crystals; Lithium niobate; Optical films; Optical imaging; Optical surface waves; Surface topography; Surface treatment;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833807