Two-dimensional observation of the Maker fringe and its application to the poling state evaluation of ferroelectric domains

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 602-605

  Yamamoto, Yuichiro ^a   Ashida, Tetsuro ^a   Kurimura, Sunao ^a   Uesu, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ferroelectric domain; LiNbO3.; Maker fringe; Second harmonic generation microscope

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000857609     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000602     Document Type: Article

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