Two-color photorefractive effect in Mg-doped lithium niobate

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4891-4896

  Winnacker, Albrecht ^a   Macfarlane, Roger M ^b   Furukawa, Yasunori ^c   Kitamura, Kenji ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Oxide Corporation ^*  (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LITHIUM NIOBATE; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; POLARONS;

ELECTRON-HOLE GRATINGS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0037055657     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.004891     Document Type: Article

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