Electrical fixing of waveguide channels in strontium-barium niobate crystals

Authors
Wesner, M Herden, C Kip, D
Citation
M. Wesner et al., Electrical fixing of waveguide channels in strontium-barium niobate crystals, APP PHYS B, 72(6), 2001, pp. 733-736
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS
ISSN journal
09462171 → ACNP
Volume
72
Issue
6
Year of publication
2001
Pages
733 - 736
Database
ISI
SICI code
0946-2171(200105)72:6<733:EFOWCI>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We demonstrate a new method of electrical fixing of waveguiding channels in strontium-barium niobate. The method is applicable to both bulk material a nd planar SBN waveguides. Waveguiding is achieved for extraordinarily polar ized light. We suggest that the fixing is based on a partial depoling of th e crystal rather than on internal electric fields.