A highly damage-resistant Zn:LiNbO3 ridge waveguide and its application to a polarization-independent wavelength converter

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1327-1333

  Asobe, Masaki ^a   Miyazawa, Hiroshi ^a   Tadanaga, Osamu ^a   Nishida, Yoshiki ^a   Suzuki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Photorefractive effect; Waveguide components

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFRACTION; LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; ZINC;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE EFFECT; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0141883983     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.817243     Document Type: Article

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