Study on the partial self-recovery process in Fe-doped lithium niobate crystals
We study the temperature and pump-intensity dependence of the temporal evolution of photoinduced light scattering in congruent, hafnium-codoped and near-stoichiometric LiNbO sub(3):Fe crystals. A partial self-recovery process is found in the evolution trend of photoinduced light scattering in all cr...
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Published in | Optical materials express Vol. 6; no. 5; pp. 1545 - 1551 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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01.05.2016
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Summary: | We study the temperature and pump-intensity dependence of the temporal evolution of photoinduced light scattering in congruent, hafnium-codoped and near-stoichiometric LiNbO sub(3):Fe crystals. A partial self-recovery process is found in the evolution trend of photoinduced light scattering in all crystals at room temperature while it disappears at -190 [degrees]C or above 120 [degrees]C. Moreover, a "scattering acceleration effect" is found for both Hf-doped and near-stoichiometric crystals. Basing the saturation refractive-index modulation the partial self-recovery process is explained by the slow recombination of light-induced space charges of the noise gratings with high wave vectors. The "scattering acceleration effect" is connected with the activation of the protons located around Fe ions and their impact on the photoconductivity. |
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ISSN: | 2159-3930 2159-3930 |
DOI: | 10.1364/OME.6.001545 |