Zirconium-doped lithium niobate: Photorefractive and electro-optical properties as a function of dopant concentration

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 270-277

  Nava, Giovanni ^a   Minzioni, Paolo ^a   Yan, Wenbo ^a,b   Parravicini, Jacopo ^a,d   Grando, Daniela ^a   Musso, Eleonora ^a   Cristiani, Ilaria ^a   Argiolas, Nicola ^c   Bazzan, Marco ^c   Ciampolillo, Maria Vittoria ^c   Zaltron, Annamaria ^c   Sada, Cinzia ^c   Degiorgio, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; CONGRUENT LITHIUM NIOBATE; DOPANT CONCENTRATIONS; ELECTRO OPTIC COEFFICIENT; ELECTROOPTICAL PROPERTIES; INCORPORATION MECHANISM; INDEX OF REFRACTION; INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NON-LINEAR DEVICES; PHOTO-REFRACTIVE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE EFFECTS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE PROPERTIES; PHOTOREFRACTIVITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THRESHOLD CONCENTRATIONS; ZR-DOPING;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT REFRACTION; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; BIREFRINGENCE; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; ZIRCONIA; ZIRCONIUM;

ZIRCONIUM; PHOTOREACTIVITY;

EID: 84862204020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000270     Document Type: Article

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