Nanopatterned ferroelectric crystals for parametric generation

Alessandro Busacca, Matteo Cherchi, Claudia Santini, Stefano Riva-Sanseverino, Antonino Parisi, Alfonso Cino, Salvatore Stivala, Alessia Pasquazi, Lorenzo Colace, Gaetano Assanto

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Abstract

We report on recent results by surface periodic poling on lithium niobate and lithium tantalate. Such approach allows periodic inversion of the second order susceptibility with nanoscale features using insulating masks. We achieved a world-best 200 nm feature size, as well as good compatibility with alpha-phase proton exchanged channel waveguides in lithium niobate. Preliminary results of surface periodic poling in lithium tantalate also show similar characteristics. Surface poling is best suited for integrated optics devices in technologically-demanding configurations such as backward second harmonic generation and counter propagating optical parametric amplification
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
PublisherIEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages269-272
Volume2
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4244-0236-6
ISBN (Print)978-1-4244-0235-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication

Keywords

  • Lithium niobate
  • Lithium tantalate
  • Nonlinear integrated optics
  • Parametric generation
  • Surface periodic poling

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