Dilute-melt, proton-exchange slab waveguides in LiNbO3: A new fabrication and characterization method

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5941-5948

  Veng, Torben ^a   Skettrup, Torben ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Lithium niobate; Planar waveguides; Proton exchange

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FABRICATION; GLYCEROL; INORGANIC ACIDS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; ION EXCHANGE; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MIXTURES; PROTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DILUTE MELT METHOD; LITHIUM BENZOATE; LITHIUM NIOBATE; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PROTON EXCHANGE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031210167     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005941     Document Type: Article

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