Epitaxial growth of optical Ba2NaNb5O15 waveguide film by pulsed laser deposition

Abstract

The waveguiding Ba2NaNb5O15 films have been prepared on KTiOPO4 substrates by pulsed laser deposition technique. Characterizations of the as-grown films by the x-ray θ–2θ scan and β scan and the scanning electron microscopy revealed that epitaxial (110)-oriented Ba2NaNb5O15 films with small surface roughness were achieved on (100)-oriented KTiOPO4 plates. The x-ray photoelectron spectrometer was employed to probe the chemical constitution of the as-grown films. Favorable optical waveguiding properties were demonstrated by m-line measurement and evaluation of propagation loss on the order of 1.0 dB/cm of TM and TE multimodes.