Growth of lithium niobate single crystals and fabrication of optical waveguide devices

Abstract

Research and development on laser physics and nonlinear optics newlinehave been rapidly expanding over the last twenty years and many newlineapplications of photonics are now relevant to the industrial and consumer newlinemarkets A major factor behind such impressive growth is the advent of highpowered newlineand efficient solidstate lasers in combination with the use of newlinematerials that exhibit large second or thirdorder nonlinearities Nonlinear newlineoptics also enables the attainment of new functionalities in laser systems and newlineoptoelectronic signal transmission and processing Optical waveguide is one newlineof the basic components in integrated optics and optoelectronics There exist newlineseveral types of waveguide structures newline newline