Quasi-phase matched second-harmonic generation through thermal poling in femtosecond laser-written glass waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 9442-9453

  Li, Guangyu ^a   Winick, Kim A ^b   Said, Ali A ^c   Dugan, Mark ^c   Bado, Philippe ^c  

^a Currently with Electro Scientific   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c TRANSLUME INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; E-BEAM DEPOSITION; EFFECTIVE NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; GLASS WAVEGUIDES; NONLINEAR GRATING; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED; SECOND ORDERS; THERMAL POLING;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

GLASS;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

GLASS; LASERS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 66449124509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009442     Document Type: Article

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