Fabrication of polarization-independent singlemode waveguides in lithium niobate crystal with femtosecond laser pulses

  • Jia Qi
  • , Peng Wang
  • , Yang Liao
  • , Wei Chu
  • , Zhengming Liu
  • , Zhaohui Wang
  • , Lingling Qiao
  • , Ya Cheng*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We report on fabrication of depressed cladding optical waveguides buried in lithium niobate crystal with shaped femtosecond laser pulses. Depressed cladding waveguides of variable mode-field sizes are fabricated by forming the four sides of the cladding using a slit-beam shaping technique. We show that the waveguides fabricated by our technique allows single-mode propagation of the light polarized in both vertical and horizontal directions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2554-2559
Number of pages6
JournalOptical Materials Express
Volume6
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

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