Optically-monitored periodical poling for fabrication of quasi-phase-matched wavelength converter

Author

Kurimura, S. ; Shoji, I. ; Taira, T. ; Jung Hoon Ro ; Myoungsik Cha ; Fukuda, T. ; Seki, H. ; Nakajima, H.

Author_Institution

Laser Res. Center, Inst. for Molecular Sci., Okazaki, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

15-19 July 2001

Abstract

Video monitoring of periodical poling process is demonstrated in LiNbO/sub 3/ using transparent liquid electrodes. The pulse-to-pulse poling is optically monitored with birefringence change under the crossed polarizers. The technique is applied to device fabrication of wavelength converters for dense wavelength-division-multiplexed optical communication.

Keywords

birefringence; dielectric polarisation; lithium compounds; optical communication equipment; optical fabrication; optical frequency conversion; optical phase matching; optical planar waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; DWDM optical communication; LiNbO/sub 3/; birefringence change; crossed polarizers; device fabrication; difference-frequency generation; liquid-phase epitaxy waveguides; optically-monitored periodical poling; polarization reversal process; pulse-to-pulse poling; quasi-phase-matched wavelength converter; ridge waveguides; transparent liquid electrodes; video monitoring; Monitoring; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical films; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Chiba, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6738-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.967756

Filename

967756