Integrated frequency shifter in periodically poled lithium tantalate waveguide

Electronics Letters

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 1686-1688

  Nava, G ^a   Minzioni, P ^a   Cristiani, I ^a   Busacca, A C ^b   Curcio, L ^b   Stivala, S ^b   Assanto, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY SHIFTERS; FREQUENCY-SHIFTING DEVICES; LITHIUM TANTALATE; NEAR INFRARED; PERIODIC POLING; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM TANTALATE; QUASI PHASE MATCHING; TWO STAGE; WAVE CONFINEMENT;

LITHIUM;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 80053077065     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2010.2561     Document Type: Article

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