Demonstration of thermal poling in holey fibres

Daniele Faccio, Alessandro Busacca, Walter Belardi, Valerio Pruneri, Peter G. Kazansky, Tanya M. Monro, David J. Richardson, B. Grappe, M. Cooper, C.N. Pannell

Electronics Letters · 2001 · 29 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

A second-order nonlinearity is induced for the first time in a holey fibre by thermal poling. Non-phase matched second harmonic generation with a ~10-8/W conversion efficiency is observed and the electro-optic coefficient is measured to be ~0.02 pm/V.

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