Guided-Wave Characteristics And Optical Damage In LiNb03 Waveguides

Yuichi Handa; Mamoru Miyawaki; Shigetaro Ogura

doi:10.1117/12.939464

26 September 1984 Guided-Wave Characteristics And Optical Damage In LiNb0₃ Waveguides

Yuichi Handa, Mamoru Miyawaki, Shigetaro Ogura

Proceedings Volume 0460, Processing of Guided Wave Optoelectronic Materials I; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.939464
Event: 1984 Los Angeles Technical Symposium, 1984, Los Angeles, United States

Abstract

High power optical performances of Ti-indiffused and ion-exchanged waveguides were investigated and discussed. It was experimentally confirmed that Ti-indiffused waveguide suffered a serious optical damage at the output power density less than 0.1 mW/mm at A = 0.6328 pm. For x-propagating guided waves in y-cut crystal, the throughput decay time, by which we could characterize the dependences of optical damage, was revealed to be inversely propor-tional to square of initial guided power, P2, for TE modes, and to P3 for TM modes, and also confirmed to increase with an exponential function of wavelength λ. No optical damage was found for z-propagating guided waves. Proton-exchanged waveguides exhibited to have a good damage resistance. Their surface acoustic wave(SAW) performances, however, were found to be degraded; an IDT's insertion loss of 45 dB was measured, which was much larger than 13 - 14 dB available for Ti-indiffused waveguides. According to the experimental results of infrared absorption spectra, we speculate that the deterioration of SAW performances is attributed to the formation of a HNbO₃ phase. A preliminary study using electron spin resonance(ESR) at 77 K provided us a good evidence of the close relation between impurities such as iron and free electrons in the crystal under UV light irradiation.

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Yuichi Handa, Mamoru Miyawaki, and Shigetaro Ogura "Guided-Wave Characteristics And Optical Damage In LiNb0₃ Waveguides", Proc. SPIE 0460, Processing of Guided Wave Optoelectronic Materials I, (26 September 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.939464

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