Electro-optical tunable waveguide Bragg gratings in lithium niobate induced by femtosecond laser writing

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26922-26928

  Horn, W ^a   Kroesen, S ^b   Herrmann, J ^b   Imbrock, J ^b   Denz, C ^b  

^a Center for Nonlinear Science   (Germany)

^b Center for Nonlinear Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; ELECTRO-OPTICAL; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; FEMTOSECONDS; FIRST-ORDER; LASER INDUCED; LITHIUM NIOBATE; LITHIUM NIOBATE WAFERS; LOW REPETITION RATE; NARROW BANDS; REFLECTION PEAKS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; TUNABLE WAVE-GUIDES; WAVEGUIDE BRAGG GRATING; WAVELENGTH CONTROL;

BRAGG GRATINGS; LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

WAVEGUIDES;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NIOBIUM; OPTICAL DEVICES; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84870602785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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