Planar LiTaO3 waveguides fabricated by proton exchange in concentrated and diluted pyrophosphoric acid with annealing

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 27, 1996, Pages 5348-5356

  Kan, Dennis ^a   Yip, Gar Lam ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Annealing; Lithium tantalate; Optical waveguides; Proton exchange

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004588517     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.005348     Document Type: Article

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