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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2001
Carl Paquet, San Jose, CA (US);
Jocelyn Lauzon, St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, CA;
Sylvain Derome, Kanata, CA;
Chiara Meneghini, Sainte-Foy, CA;
Institut National d'Optique, Quebec, CA;
Abstract
The present invention concerns a method for fabricating a patterned, poled dielectric structure, comprising the steps of providing a material, patterning a periodic pattern into a first surface, applying an electrode to the first surface, and applying a voltage to the electrode to create a domain inversion in the material. Preferably, the material is a ferroelectric material, and the electrode is a single, planar, solid electrode. The method proposed herein is simple, reproducible and economical, as compared to prior methods. Patterned, poled dielectric structures are used to generate optical frequency conversion, by creating quasi-phase matching between two optical signals.