Quasi-phase matched second-harmonic generation through thermal poling in femtosecond laser-written glass waveguides

Quasi-phase matched second-harmonic generation at 532 nm is demonstrated in a channel waveguide that is written in bulk fused silica using a femtosecond laser. The second-order nonlinear grating is fabricated using uniform thermal poling followed by periodic erasure inside an e-beam deposition system caused, by what we believe to be, x-rays. A SHG conversion efficiency of 2 x 10(-5) %/W-cm(2) was obtained for a 1 cm long device, corresponding to an effective nonlinear coefficient of 0.0075 pm/V. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America