An excellent crystal for high resistance against optical damage in visible-UV range: Near-stoichiometric zirconium-doped lithium niobate

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1743-1748

  Liu, Hongde ^a   Liang, Qirui ^a   Zhu, Meiling ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Liu, Shiguo ^a   Zhang, Ling ^a   Chen, Shaolin ^a   Kong, Yongfa ^a   Xu, Jingjun ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LITHIUM; PHASE MATCHING; ZIRCONIUM;

HIGH RESISTANCE; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; NEAR STOICHIOMETRIC; OPTICAL DAMAGE RESISTANCE; OPTICAL DAMAGES; QUASI-PHASE MATCHING TECHNIQUES; SWITCHING FIELD; ZIRCONIUM DOPED;

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NIOBIUM; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 79851494274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001743     Document Type: Article

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