Abstract

Photonic crystal structures have a great potential to reduce the size and increase the functionality of integrated optics devices. Of special interests are photonic crystals in nonlinear optical materials exploiting the electro-optic effect to perform fast optical modulation, switching, and wavelength division multiplexing. Here, we focus on LiNbO₃ as one of the most attractive materials of choice due to its excellent electro-optical properties and the possibility to fabricate large-area, submicron-thick single-crystal films using our novel technique [1, 2].

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