Silicate fibers with internal electrodes are optically poled without a laser by side-exposure to radiation from a UV tubular lamp. Electrooptic coefficients κ(2)∼ 0.04 pm/V and Vπ = 810 V are obtained
Funding details: 722509; Funding text 1: The authors acknowledge financial support from the FINESSE project. FINESSE is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Slodowska - Curie grant agreement n° 722509. Partial funding from K. A. Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Science Council is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank Prof. I. C. S. Carvalho (PUC-Rio, Brazil) for useful discussions.