Axial birefringence induced focus splitting in lithium niobate

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17970-17975

  Zhou, Guangyong ^a   Jesacher, Alexander ^b   Booth, Martin ^b   Wilson, Tony ^b   Ródenas, Airán ^c   Jaque, Daniel ^c   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

AXIAL DIRECTION; EIGEN MODES; FOCUS SPLITTING; LITHIUM NIOBATE; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL AXIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDE WRITING;

BIREFRINGENCE;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NIOBIUM; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70349671607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017970     Document Type: Article

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