Short-period domain patterning by ion beam irradiation in lithium niobate waveguides produced by soft proton exchange

DS Chezganov, EO Vlasov, LV Gimadeeva… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
The lithium-niobate-based waveguides have emerged as one of the key platforms for
enabling integrated optical technologies. The most common method for creating …

Backward optical parametric oscillator threshold and linewidth studies

A Godard, M Guionie, JB Dherbecourt, JM Melkonian… - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We carry out a theoretical investigation of the backward interaction optical parametric
oscillator (OPO), in which one of the generated waves is counterpropagating with respect to …

Submicron periodical poling by local switching in ion sliced lithium niobate thin films with a dielectric layer

BN Slautin, H Zhu, VY Shur - Ceramics International, 2021 - Elsevier
Lithium niobate LiNbO 3 (LN) on insulator wafers (LNOI) representing a submicron-thick LN
film bonded to a SiO 2 layer deposited on a thick LN substrate have been manufactured …

Barkhausen pulses caused by domain merging in congruent lithium niobate

AR Akhmatkhanov, IA Kipenko, AA Esin… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The analysis of the shapes of Barkhausen pulses (BPs) was used for the detailed
characterization of the domain merging process in congruent lithium niobate LiNbO 3 (CLN) …

Shaping light in backward-wave nonlinear hyperbolic metamaterials

AK Popov, SA Myslivets, VV Slabko, VA Tkachenko… - Photonics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Backward electromagnetic waves are extraordinary waves with contra-directed phase
velocity and energy flux. Unusual properties of the coherent nonlinear optical coupling of the …

Design Considerations for Continuous Wave Intracavity Backwards Optical Parametric Oscillators

J Kneller, L Flannigan, CQ Xu - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we report a theoretical systematic study of continuous wave intracavity
backwards optical parametric oscillators based on periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) …

Theoretical Investigation of Backward Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by Vortex Beams

X Zhu, J He, Y Su, Y Chen, X Hu - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Nonlinear generation and manipulation of vortex beams have been emerged as a research
hot topic in recent years. During the nonlinear frequency conversions, the orbital angular …

Theoretical study of diode pumped intracavity backward optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled lithium niobate

J Kneller, L Flannigan, CQ Xu - Applied Physics B, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, a diode pumped mid-IR laser based on a singly resonant intracavity
backwards optical parametric oscillator (SR IC-BOPO) is proposed and a simulation model …

Second harmonic generation in periodically poled MgO: LN crystal with 2 µm period created by e-beam irradiation

ED Savelyev, AR Akhmatkhanov, DS Chezganov… - …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The periodical domain structure with period 2 μm was created in 1-mm-thick MgO doped
lithium niobate single crystals by electron-beam irradiation. The second harmonic …

Compact source of energetic sub-nanosecond red pulses based on cascaded quasi-phase-matching in aperiodically poled lithium niobate

CE Minor, RS Cudney - Applied Optics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We present a simple, compact source of sub-nanosecond pulsed red radiation, based on
cascaded nonlinear optical processes—degenerate optical parametric generation and sum …