Enhancement of Čerenkovian second-harmonic-generation power with ultraviolet irradiation-formed nonlinear optical χ(2) corrugation and channel waveguide

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 773-780

  Sato, Heihachi ^a   Matsuno, Hiroaki ^a   Seo, Iwao ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 0032329964     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.000773     Document Type: Article

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8. It is not necessary that the guide be asymmetric. The asymmetry is due only to a technical problem in inducing a uniform poling with the remaining lower metallic electrode.
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