Optical wavelength converter device
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoji Okazaki, Koji Kamiyama, Masaki Okazaki
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Abstract
An optical wavelength converter device has a waveguide of a nonlinear optical material disposed in cladding and having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the cladding for converting a fundamental guided through the waveguide into a second or third harmonic and radiating the second or third harmonic into the cladding. The nonlinear optical material comprises an organic nonlinear optical material having a maximum light absorption coefficient at a wavelength close to the wavelength of at least one of the fundamental and the second harmonic.
Claims7
An optical wavelength converter device comprising:
- (i) cladding having a first refractive index;
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- (ii) a waveguide of a nonlinear optical material disposed in said cladding and having a second refractive index lower than said first refractive index, for converting the wavelength of a fundamental guided through said waveguide and radiating the wavelength converted waves into said cladding, said nonlinear optical material comprising an organic nonlinear optical material having a maximum light absorption coefficient at a wavelength close to the wavelength of at least one of said fundamental and said wavelength converted waves.
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