Abstract

Integrated optics offer the possibility to achieve large pump intensities even at low power levels and to maintain them along a considerable distance due to the confinement of the radiation as an optical mode. Therefore, very efficient optical parametric interactions can be expected in guided wave structures. Moreover, modal birefringence can in principle be utilized to compensate the material dispersion and in this way to achieve phase matching even in highly nonlinear but isotropic materials like GaAs [1].

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