High intensity illumination effects in LiNbO3 and KTiOPO4 waveguides

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Eger, D [1 ]
Arbore, MA [1 ]
Fejer, MM [1 ]
Bortz, ML [1 ]
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[1] NEW FOCUS INC, SANTA CLARA, CA 95051 USA
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10.1063/1.365939
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Quasi-phase-matched waveguides are known to degrade when generating high intensity short wavelength light. Photoinduced changes in the refractive indices can lead to reduced efficiency by broadening phase-matching curves or inducing power dependent losses. In this work a pump-probe technique was used to investigate photorefractive effects in nonlinear optical waveguides. A strong two photon photorefractive effect in single domain and Ti-poled LiNbO3 was found that is considerably reduced in electric field periodically poled LiNbO3 and is absent in Rb-exchanged KTiOPO4. (C) 1997 American institute of Physics.
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