Reconfigurable optical channel waveguides in lithium niobate crystals produced by combination of low-dose O3+ ion implantation and selective white light illumination

Tan, Yang; Chen, Feng; Stepić, Milutin; Shandarov, Vladimir; Kip, Detlef

doi:10.1364/oe.16.010465

Reconfigurable optical channel waveguides in lithium niobate crystals produced by combination of low-dose O3+ ion implantation and selective white light illumination

Publication date

2008-07

Document type

Research article

Author

Tan, Yang

Chen, Feng

Stepić, Milutin

Shandarov, Vladimir

Kip, Detlef

Organisational unit

Technische Universität Clausthal

DOI

10.1364/oe.16.010465

URI

https://openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de/handle/10.24405/14006

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-47249154817

Pubmed ID

18607459

Publisher

Soc.

Series or journal

Optics express

ISSN

1094-4087

Periodical volume

16

Periodical issue

14

First page

10465

Last page

10470

Part of the university bibliography

Nein

Language

English

Abstract

We report on a new method to form reconfigurable channel waveguides in lithium niobate crystals, based on a combination of low-dose O(3+) ion implantation and selective white light illumination. The fabricated structures show low loss as well as rather high resistivity against optical erasure with red or infrared light, while at the same time reconfiguration of the structures remains possible using homogeneous white light illumination. The transmission properties of the channel waveguide modes can be well simulated numerically by the beam propagation method, which allows for the fabrication of tailored optical interconnections.

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