Optical amplification by two-wave mixing in lithium niobate waveguide

H. X. Zhang; C. H. Kam; Y. Zhou; Y. C. Chan; Y. L. Lam

Optical amplification by two-wave mixing in lithium niobate waveguide

H. X. Zhang^*, C. H. Kam, Y. Zhou, Y. C. Chan, Y. L. Lam

^*Corresponding author for this work

Nanyang Technological University

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Abstract

Photorefractive Fe:LiNbO₃ planar waveguides have been fabricated by proton exchange method using Fe:LiNbO₃ as substrate and benzoic acid as exchange medium. The waveguide has a much larger refractive index increment than a Ti diffused one. Through end-face coupling, a pump beam and a signal beam were injected into the waveguide and the optical amplification properties of the waveguide have been investigated experimentally. The results showed that a hundred fold amplification gain could be obtained in a wide range of grating periods and an amplification gain of 180 was achieved easily. This scheme has potential applications in optical signal processing at not very high incident intensity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	208-214
Number of pages	7
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	3801
Publication status	Published - 1999
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 1999 Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications V - Denver, CO, USA Duration: Jul 18 1999 → Jul 19 1999

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Optical amplification by two-wave mixing in lithium niobate waveguide

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