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The limited size of a grating coupler on a waveguide is responsible for the nonuniform guided wave intensity. Spatial transients have been recorded and a characteristic length of the order of 30 μm has been determined by fitting a simple model to the experimental results. This value is consistent with spatial transient measurements performed under nonlinear operation conditions which reveal a 100 μm long dead zone in which switching contrast is very low.