Optical waveguides in lithium niobate: Recent developments and applications

M Bazzan, C Sada - Applied Physics Reviews, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The state of the art of optical waveguide fabrication in lithium niobate is reviewed, with
particular emphasis on new technologies and recent applications. The attention is mainly …

Opto-microfluidic coupling between optical waveguides and tilted microchannels in lithium niobate

R Zamboni, L Gauthier-Manuel, A Zaltron… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
This work presents a reconfigurable opto-microfluidic coupling between optical waveguides
and tilted microfluidic channels in monolithic lithium niobate crystal. The light path …

High efficiency frequency doubling in fully diced LiNbO3 ridge waveguides on silicon

M Chauvet, F Henrot, F Bassignot, F Devaux… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonlinear periodically poled ridge LiNbO 3 waveguides have been fabricated on silicon
substrates. Components are carved with only the use of a precision dicing machine without …

Spatial solitons in biased photorefractive materials with both the linear and quadratic electro-optic effects

L Hao, Q Wang, C Hou - Journal of Modern Optics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Unlike previous cases discussed, non-linear changes of refractive index in the
photorefractive (PR) materials are governed by both the linear and quadratic electro-optic …

Properties of optical spatial solitons in photorefractive crystals with special emphasis to two-photon photorefractive nonlinearity

S Konar, A Biswas - Optical Materials, 2013 - Elsevier
We have reviewed recent developments of some aspects of optical spatial solitons in
photorefractive media. Underlying principles governing the dynamics of photorefractive …

[PDF][PDF] Optical bright solitons in lithium niobate and their applications

E Fazio, A Petris, M Bertolotti, VI Vlad - Rom. Rep. Phys, 2013 - rrp.nipne.ro
In the present paper we review the physics of soliton formation in lithium niobate by means
of photorefractive nonlinearity. Considering the waveguides that such solitonic beams leave …

Polarization and configuration dependence of beam self-focusing in photorefractive LiNbO3

J Safioui, M Chauvet, F Devaux, V Coda, F Pettazzi… - JOSA B, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We present numerical and experimental analyses showing the formation of (2+ 1) D spatial
photorefractive solitons at visible wavelengths in electrically biased lithium niobate crystals …

Nonlinear dynamics of two-color optical vortices in lithium niobate crystals

A Dreischuh, DN Neshev, VZ Kolev, S Saltiel… - Optics …, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We study experimentally the nonlinear dynamics of two-color optical vortex beams in the
presence of second-harmonic generation combined with the effects of photo-and thermal …

Self-trap** of low-energy infrared femtosecond beams in lithium niobate

F Pettazzi, M Alonzo, M Centini, A Petris, VI Vlad… - Physical Review A …, 2007 - APS
In this paper we report self-trap** of subnanojoule femtosecond near-infrared beams in
photonic-grade undoped bulk lithium niobate under application of an external dc electric …

Optical alignment tolerances in double-side irradiated self-written waveguide-induced fiber arrays packages

KW Cheng, MA Uddin, HP Chan, SC Chan - Optics communications, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present our experimental study on the optical alignment tolerance between
the couplings of single-mode fibers (SMFs) connected with a double-side irradiation …