Reconfigurable optical channel waveguides in lithium niobate crystals produced by combination of low-dose O3+ ion implantation and selective white light illumination

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10465-10470

  Tan, Yang ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Stepić, Milutin ^b   Shandarov, Vladimir ^c   Kip, Detlef ^d  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY OF CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RADIOELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^d CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ION IMPLANTATION; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; FABRICATED STRUCTURES; HIGH RESISTIVITY; INFRARED LIGHT; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY; WHITE-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

ION; IRON; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IONS; IRON; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NIOBIUM; OPTICS; OXIDES; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 47249154817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010465     Document Type: Article

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