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Photorefractive damage removal in LiNbO3 channel waveguides

Photorefractive damage removal in LiNbO3 channel waveguides
Photorefractive damage removal in LiNbO3 channel waveguides
The undesirable photorefractive properties inherent in materials like LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 seriously limit the usefulness of these waveguides, particularly for visible wavelength operation where the high intensities within the guides cause catastrophic damage. The U.K. team reports a new approach whereby ion-beam implantation is used as a post-processing technique that reduces the photorefractive effect in previously fabricated annealed proton exchange channel waveguides in LiNbO3. The researchers say ion-beam implantation dramatically decreased the time dependent transmission losses implying that photorefractivity was greatly reduced. This result is significant, they add, because it provides a simple method for producing non-photorefractive LiNbO3.
Robertson, E.E.
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Eason, R.W.
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Yokoo, Y.
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Chandler, P.J.
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Robertson, E.E.
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Eason, R.W.
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Yokoo, Y.
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Chandler, P.J.
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Robertson, E.E., Eason, R.W., Yokoo, Y. and Chandler, P.J. (1996) Photorefractive damage removal in LiNbO3 channel waveguides. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO Europe), Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. 08 - 13 Sep 1996.

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Abstract

The undesirable photorefractive properties inherent in materials like LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 seriously limit the usefulness of these waveguides, particularly for visible wavelength operation where the high intensities within the guides cause catastrophic damage. The U.K. team reports a new approach whereby ion-beam implantation is used as a post-processing technique that reduces the photorefractive effect in previously fabricated annealed proton exchange channel waveguides in LiNbO3. The researchers say ion-beam implantation dramatically decreased the time dependent transmission losses implying that photorefractivity was greatly reduced. This result is significant, they add, because it provides a simple method for producing non-photorefractive LiNbO3.

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Published date: 1996
Venue - Dates: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO Europe), Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 1996-09-08 - 1996-09-13

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Local EPrints ID: 78044
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/78044
PURE UUID: 735134df-23e4-4887-98cd-267689d81f25
ORCID for R.W. Eason: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9704-2204

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:33

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Author: E.E. Robertson
Author: R.W. Eason ORCID iD
Author: Y. Yokoo
Author: P.J. Chandler

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