Abstract
Recent progress in the development of electric-field poling techniques for the patterning of the domain structure of ferroelectric materials has enabled the implementation of distinctive quasi-phase-matched (QPM) structures for efficient nonlinear optical interactions [1]. Such QPM devices have been fabricated in LiNbO3, LiTaO3 and in the KTP-family crystals. Semiconductor materials which have larger nonlinear coefficients (χ(2)), are also promising candidates for efficient frequency up/down conversion. However, the technology employed at present to fabricate semiconductor QPM devices suffers from limitations such as difficulty in producing and stacking thin plates for first-order QPM.
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