Parametric Conversion in Micrometer and Submicrometer Structured Ferroelectric Crystals by Surface Poling
Author(s) -
Alessandro Busacca,
Salvatore Stivala,
Luciano Curcio,
Gaetano Assanto
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of optics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.263
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1687-9392
pISSN - 1687-9384
DOI - 10.1155/2012/606892
Subject(s) - poling , materials science , lithium tantalate , ferroelectricity , lithium niobate , quasiperiodic function , optics , micrometer , wavelength , parametric statistics , optoelectronics , condensed matter physics , physics , dielectric , statistics , mathematics
We report on recent technological improvements concerning nonlinear patterning of lithium niobate and lithium tantalate in the micrometer and submicrometer scales using surface periodic poling for ferroelectric domain inversion. The fabricated samples were employed for frequency doubling via quasiphase-matching both in bulk and guided wave geometries, including forward and backward configurations and wavelength conversion in bands C and L. We also investigated short-period quasiperiodic samples with randomly distributed mark-to-space ratios
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