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- Title
Electro-optic coefficients of a non-congruent lithium niobate fabricated by vapour transport equilibration: Composition effect.
- Authors
Xu, J.-Q.; Du, W.-Y.; Sun, Q.; Wong, W.-H.; Yu, D.-Y.; Pun, E. Y.-B.; Zhang, D.-L.
- Abstract
Composition effect on electro-optic (EO) properties of a LiNbO3 (LN) single-crystal has been investigated in a Li2O-content range of 47.0-49.95 mol%. Some non-congruent LN crystals with different Li2O-contents were prepared by performing Li-deficient or Li-rich vapour transport equilibration treatments on as-grown congruent LN crystals. Unclamped EO coefficients γ13 and γ33 of these samples were measured by a Mach-Zehnder interferometric method. The measurements show that in the Li-deficient regime both γ13 and γ33 increase by ~8% as Li2O-content decreases from the congruent 48.6 mol% to the 47.0 mol% in the Li-deficient regime. The feature is desired for the EO application of the Li-deficient crystal. In the near-stoichiometric regime, both γ13 and γ33 reveal a non-monotonic dependence. As the Li2O-content increases from the 48.6 mol%, the EO coefficient decreases. Around Li2O-content 49.5 mol%, a minimum is reached. After that, the EO coefficient recovers slowly. At the stoichiometric composition, it recovers to a value close to that at the congruent point. Comparison shows that different crystal growth methods give rise to different defect structure features and hence different composition effects.
- Publication
Opto-Electronics Review, 2017, Vol 25, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
1230-3402
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.opelre.2017.04.001