Application of Li2O compensation techniques to Ti-diffused LiNbO3 planar and channel waveguides
- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 33 (1), 70-72
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.90149
Abstract
We report a novel technique to determine the index change in Li2O in‐diffused surface layer in LiNbO3 by observing the cutoff angle of the extraordinary substrated mode as it refracts through the surface‐layer–substrate interface. Surface‐layer index changes from 10−4 to 10−2 were measured in various samples which received compensation treatments for times of 10 min to 6 h, primarily in LiNbO3 powder. We also report the successful compensation of nearly single‐mode Ti : LiNbO3 channel waveguides.Keywords
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