Evaluation of domain randomness in periodically poled lithium niobate by diffraction noise measurement

Prashant Povel Dwivedi, Hee Joo Choi, Byoung Joo Kim, Myoungsik Cha

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Abstract

Random duty-cycle errors (RDE) in ferroelectric quasi-phasematching (QPM) devices not only affect the frequency conversion efficiency, but also generate non-phase-matched parasitic noise that can be detrimental to some applications. We demonstrate an accurate but simple method for measuring the RDE in periodically poled lithium niobate. Due to the equivalence between the undepleted harmonic generation spectrum and the diffraction pattern from the QPM grating, we employed linear diffraction measurement which is much simpler than tunable harmonic generation experiments [J. S. Pelc, et al., Opt. Lett. 36, 864-866 (2011)]. As a result, we could relate the RDE for the QPM device to the relative noise intensity between the diffraction orders.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)30221-30226
Number of pages6
JournalOptics Express
Volume21
Issue number25
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 16 2013
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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