Fabrication of ridge waveguides in zinc-substituted lithium niobate by means of ion-beam enhanced etching

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2320-2322

  Hartung, Holger ^a   Kley, Ernst Berhard ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a   Gischkat, Thomas ^a   Schrempel, Frank ^a   Wesch, Werner ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; FABRICATION; ION BEAMS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES; ZINC;

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; HIGH QUALITY; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; SIDEWALL ANGLES; SIDEWALL ROUGHNESS; SINGLE MODE; WAVEGUIDING;

RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 55349087547     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.002320     Document Type: Article

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