All-Optical Switching Based on Cascading of Second-Order Nonlinearities in a Periodically Poled Titanium-Diffused Lithium Niobate Waveguide

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 328-330

  Kanbara, Hirohisa ^a   Itoh, Hiroki ^a   Asobe, Masaki ^a   Noguchi, Kazuto ^a   Miyazawa, Hiroshi ^a   Yanagawa, Tsutomu ^a   Yokohama, Itaru ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical switching; Cascading; Difference frequency generation; Periodically poled lithium niobate; Second order nonlinearity; Sum frequency generation

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TITANIUM;

DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; ELECTRIC FIELD POLING; PHASE MATCHING; SECOND-ORDER NONLINEARITY; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0033100687     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.748224     Document Type: Article

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