Light-induced symmetry breaking and related giant enhancement of nonlinear properties in CdZnTe:V crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9385-9390

  Shwartz, Sharon ^a   Weil, Raoul ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Lakin, Eugene ^a   Zolotoyabko, Emil ^a   Menon, Vinod M ^b   Forrest, Stephen R ^b   El Hanany, Uri ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c Imarad Imaging Systems Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ELECTROSTRICTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 33749389199     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009385     Document Type: Article

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