Proton exchanged waveguides in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 for integrated lasers and nonlinear frequency converters

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1193-1202

  Baldi, Pascal ^a,e,f   De Micheli, Marc P ^a,g,h,i   El Hadi, Kacem ^a   Nouh, Salim ^b   Cino, Alfonso C ^a,c,d,j,k   Aschieri, P ^a   Ostrowsky, Daniel B ^{a,l,m,n,o,p,q}  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b CERS   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^c CRES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^f OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^g FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ IEEE

^j Optoelectronics Laboratory Dipto Elettrotecnica ed Elettron Polilecnico di Bari   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^l RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^m General Electric

ⁿ BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o THALES   (France)

^p Integrated Optics Laboratory   (India)

^q Optical Communcations Group

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Author keywords

Integrated optics; Lasers; Lithium niobate; Lithium tantalate; Nonlinear optics; Proton exchange; Rare earth; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001054353     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601954     Document Type: Article

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