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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Optical Bistability In Titanium-Diffused Lithium Niobate Optical Waveguides With Liquid Crystalline Nonlinear Prism Coupler

Tomasz R. Woliński, Mirosław A. Karpierz

Published Mar 8, 1989• 2 citations
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Abstract

Observation of the intrinsic optical bistability in a titanium-diffused lithium niobate optical waveguide with liquid crystalline nonlinear prism coupling is reported and a comparison with the optical bistable effect in a glass thin-film waveguide is also presented.
DOI
10.1117/12.949961

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