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Nonlinear optical effects in waveguides are of potential applications in the development of various integrated photonic devices. Ion beam produced nonlinear waveguides possess well preserved properties of the bulks and could be utilized for nonlinear optical applications. In this chapter, the ion beam modification of nonlinear optical crystals and the applications of the nonlinear waveguides are introduced. In Sect. 8.1, the nonlinear properties of the waveguides, including the modified nonlinear coefficients in the guiding regions, are presented. In Sect. 8.2, one of the major applications of the nonlinear waveguides, the frequency/wavelength conversion, is overviewed. Section 8.3 reviews the research results on the photorefractive waveguides, which are based on a “weak” light induced effect. Section 8.4 is devoted to the nonlinear propagation of light (spatial solitons) in waveguides and waveguide arrays.

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    Feng Chen & Yuechen Jia

  2. Hydrogen Materials Engineering Group, Cryogenic Center for Liquid Hydrogen and Materials Science, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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Chen, F., Amekura, H., Jia, Y. (2020). Nonlinear Optical Dielectric Waveguides. In: Ion Irradiation of Dielectrics for Photonic Applications. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 231. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4607-5_8

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