Elimination of photorefractive grating writing instabilities in iron-doped lithium niobate

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1661-1665

  Evans, Dean R ^a   Basun, Sergei A ^d   Saleh, Mohammad A ^b   Allen, Amantha S ^a,c   Pottenger, Tim P ^a   Cook, Gary ^e   Bunning, Timothy J ^a   Guha, Shekhar ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Technical Management Concepts Inc   (United States)

^c Southwestern Ohio Cncl Higher Educ   (United States)

^d IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instability; Lithium niobate; Photorefractive; Photovoltaic; Quasi breakdown; Two beam coupling

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LITHIUM NIOBATE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

TWO-BEAM COUPLING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0036901937     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.805109     Document Type: Article

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