Strength and symmetry of the third-order nonlinearity during poling of glass waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1294-1296

  Marckmann, Carl J ^a   Ren, Yitao ^a   Genty, Goëry ^b   Kristensen, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Amorphous materials; Electrooptic devices; Electrooptic Kerr effect; Electrooptic measurements; Pockels effect

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ANISOTROPY; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FUSED SILICA; KERR ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECT; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

GLASS WAVEGUIDES; THERMAL POLING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036742246     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.801595     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. J. Arentoft, M. Kristensen, and J. B. Jensen, "Poling of planar silica waveguides," Proc. OSA TOPS, vol. 29, pp. 227-234, 1999.
2. R. A. Myers, N. Mukherjee, and S. R. J. Brueck, "Large second-order nonlinearity in poled fused silica," Opt. Lett., vol. 16, no. 22, pp. 1732-1734, 1991.
3. T. Fujiwara, D. Wong, Y. Zhao, S. Fleming, S. Poole, and M. Sceats, "Electro-optic modulation in germanosilicate fiber with UV-excited poling," Elecron. Lett., vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 573-575, 1995.
4. K. O. Hill, Y. Fujii, D. C. Johnson, and B. S. Kawasaki, "Photosensitivity in optical fiber waveguides: Application to reflection filter fabrication," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 647-649, 1978.
5. D. Frohman-Bentchkowsky and M. Lenzlinger, "Charge transport and storage in metal-nitride-oxide-silicon (MNOS) structures," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 3307-3319, 1969.
6. D. Frohman-Bentchkowsky, "The metal-nitride-oxide-silicon (MNOS) transistor - Characteristics and applications," Proc. IEEE, vol. 58, pp. 1207-1219, Aug. 1970.
7. J. Arentoft, "Poling of planar silica-based waveguides," Ph.D. dissertation, Research Center COM, Technical Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, 2000.
8. K. O. Hill, B. Malo, F. Bilodeau, D. C. Johnson, and J. Albert, "Bragg gratings fabricated in monomode photosensitive optical fiber by UV exposure through a phase mask," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 62, no. 10, pp. 1035-1037, 1993.
9. Y. Ren, C. J. Marckmann, J. Arentoft, and M. Kristensen, "Thermally poled channel waveguides with polarization independent electro-optic effect," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 639-641, May 2002.
10. B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics. New York: Wiley, 1991.
11. P. G. Kazansky and P. St. J. Russel, "Thermally poled glass: Frozen-in electric field or oriented dipoles?," Opt. Commun., vol. 110, pp. 611-614, 1994.
12. P. N. Prasad and D. J. Williams, Introduction to Nonlinear Optical Effects in Molecules and Polymers. New York: Wiley, 1991.
13. S. Kielich, "Optical second-harmonic generation by electrically polarized isotropic media," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. QE-5, pp. 562-568, Dec. 1969.
14. A. Liu, M. Digonnet, and G. Kino, "DC Kerr coefficient in silica: Theory and experiment," Proc. SPIE, vol. 3542, pp. 102-107, 1998.
15. A. C. Liu, M. J. F. Digonnet, and G. S. Kino, "Measurement of the dc Kerr and electrostrictive phase modulation in silica," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 187-194, 2001.
16. 2, for various fiber types," in Proc. OFC 2000, vol. 37, 2000, pp. ThL5-1-ThL5-3.
17. C. J. Marckmann, G. Genty, Y. Ren, J. Arentoft, and M. Kristensen, "Bragg gratings as probes to determine nonlinearities induced by thermal poling," in BGPP 2001, Tech. Dig., 2001, pp. BFC3-1-BFC3-3.
18. 2 doped optical fibers," Electron. Lett., vol. 29, no. 13, pp. 1191-1193, 1993.
19. H. Vendeltorp-Pommer, "Numerical analysis of optical fibers with a noncircular symmetry in the refractive index profile," Ph.D. dissertation, Electromagnetics Inst., Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, 1989.
20. K. E. Mattsson, "Plasma-enhanced growth, composition, and refractive index of silicon oxy-nitride films," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 77, no. 12, pp. 6616-6623, 1995.