Ferroelectric Crystals for Photonic Applications

Part I. Fabrication

1. Micro-Structuring and Ferroelectric Domain Engineering of Single Crystal Lithium Niobate
S. Mailis, C. L. Sones, R. W. Eason

2. Fabrication and Characterization of Self-assembled Ferroelectric Linear and Nonlinear Photonic Crystals: GaN and LiNbO3

L.-H. Peng, H.-M. Wu, C.-M. Lai

3. Sub-Micron Structuring of LiNbO3 Crystals with Multi-Period and Complex Geometries
S. Grilli, P. Ferraro

4. Nonlinear Optical Waveguides in Stoichiometric Lithium Tantalate
M. Marangoni, R. Ramponi

5. 3-D Integrated Optical Microcircuits in Lithium Niobate Written by Spatial Solitons
E. Fazio, M. Chauvet, V. I. Vlad, A. Petris, F. Pettazzi, V. Coda, M. Alonzo

Part II. Characterization

6. Light Aided Domain Patterning and Rare Earth Emission Based Imaging of Ferroelectric Domains
V. Dierolf, C. Sandmann

7. Visual and Quantitative Characterization of Ferroelectric Crystals and Related Domain Engineering Processes by Interferometric Techniques
P. Ferraro, S. Grilli, M. Paturzo, S. Nicola

8. New Insights into Ferroelectric Domain Imaging with Piezoresponse Force Microscopy
Tobias Jungk, Ákos Hoffmann, Elisabeth Soergel

9. Structural Characterization of Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Crystals by High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction
M. Bazzan, N. Argiolas, C. Sada, P. Mazzoldi

Part III. Applications

10. Nonlinear Interactions in Periodic and Quasi-periodic Nonlinear Photonic Crystals
A. Arie, A. Bahabad, N. Habshoosh

11. Domain-Engineered Ferroelectric Crystals for Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
Marco Bellini, Pablo Cancio, Gianluca Gagliardi, Giovanni Giusfredi, Pasquale Maddaloni, Davide Mazzotti, Paolo Natale

12. Photonic Bandgap Properties of Lithium Niobate
N. Courjal, F. I. Baida, M.-P. Bernal, J. Dahdah, C. Guyot, H. Lu, B. Sadani, G. Ulliac

13. Lithium Niobate Whispering Gallery Resonators: Applications and Fundamental Studies
L. Maleki, A. B. Matsko

14. Applications of Domain Engineering in Ferroelectrics for Photonic Applications
D. A. Scrymgeour

15. Electro-Optics Effect in Periodically Domain-Inverted Ferroelectrics Crystals: Principles and Applications
J. Shi, X. Chen

16. The LiNbO3 Slab Waveguide: A Platform for Terahertz Signal Generation, Detection, and Control
Christopher A. Werley, Keith A. Nelson

17. Periodically-Poled Ferroelectric Crystals Based OPO—A Powerful Source for Precision Spectroscopy
M. DeRosa, E. DeTommasi, P. Maddaloni, S. Mosca, I. Ricciardi, A. Rocco, J.-J. Zondy, P. DeNatale

18. Electro-Optical Devices Obtained by LiNbO3 Crystals
M. Paturzo, V. Pagliarulo, S. Grilli, P. Ferraro

Keywords: Materials Science, Optical and Electronic Materials, Laser Technology, Photonics, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials