Optical waveguide and second harmonic generator.

摘要

An optical waveguide apparatus arranged such that a Ta2O5-TiO2 system amorphous thin film (12) is formed on a substrate (11). This optical waveguide apparatus can perform optical waveguiding at high efficiency. Also, an optical waveguide-type second harmonic generator of Cerenkov radiation type arranged such that the amorphous thin film is formed on a non-linear optical crystal substrate. This optical waveguide-type second harmonic generator can efficiently perform the confinement of light, whereby a fundamental wave of near-infrared rays can be received and a second harmonic wave radiated to the substrate side can be obtained with high efficiency. Further, in a second harmonic generator (SHG) in which the amorphous optical waveguide is formed on a surface of an LiNbO3 non-linear optical crystal substrate (11) on which surface is formed a periodically-poled region (10), this second harmonic generator can very efficiently generate a light having a wavelength of half of a semiconductor laser light of 0.8 micrometer band by selecting a relationship between the periodically-poled region cycle ( LAMBDA ) and the thickness (h) of the optical waveguide.