Characterization of Annealed Proton Exchanged LiNbO3 Waveguides for Nonlinear Frequency Conversion

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1992, Pages 1302-1313

  Cao, X F ^a   Ramaswamy, R V ^a   Srivastava, Ramakant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

ANNEALED PROTON-EXCHANGED (APE) LITHIUM NIOBATE WAVEGUIDES; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; MODE FIELD PROFILE; MODE INDEX MEASUREMENTS; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE MISMATCH PREDICTION; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0026923051     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.156883     Document Type: Article

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