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Waveguiding and nonlinear optical properties of three-dimensional waveguides in LiTaO3 written by high-repetition rate ultrafast laser

Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 111106 (2008); doi:10.1063/1.2980437

Published 15 September 2008

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Ben McMillen,1 Kevin P. Chen,1 Honglin An,2 Simon Fleming,2 Vincent Hartwell,3 and David Snoke3
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
2Optical Fibre Technology Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 1430, Australia
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA

We report the fabrication of waveguides in lithium tantalate using a 250  kHz high-repetition rate ultrafast laser at 771  nm and the characterization of the resulting laser induced structure with second harmonic microscopy. Waveguides operating at the 1.5  µm telecommunication wavelength were formed above and below the focal volume using pulse energies ranging from 100  to  1.6  J and translation speeds from 100  µm/s  to  5  mm/s. The second harmonic microscopy reveals no degradation of the electro-optic coefficient in the guiding region above the focal volume. ©2008 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 28 May 2008; accepted 14 August 2008; published 15 September 2008
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 42.62.Cf
    Industrial applications of lasers
  • 42.70.Mp
    Nonlinear optical crystals
  • 42.65.Wi
    Nonlinear optical waveguides
  • 42.65.Ky
    Optical frequency conversion; harmonic generation
  • 42.65.Re
    Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression
  • 42.87.-d
    Optical testing techniques
  • YEAR: 2008

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