短脉冲光在光伏光折变晶体中写入和擦除光折变光栅理论研究

利用GC Valley的准连续光(Quasi-cw)近似模型,研究了短脉冲激光(纳秒ns量级)在光伏光折变材料LiNbO3晶体中写入和擦除光折变光栅的过程,给出了空间电荷场随时间变化的表达式.理论研究表明,空间电荷场的形成和擦除与两个时间参量有关,在考虑或者不考虑光生伏打效应两种情况下,这两个参量随擦除光强的变化有基本相同的变化规律,光栅的写入和擦除有相同的结果.同样,擦除一个光栅所需的光能量在两种情况下也有相同的结果.因此,在短脉冲光入射光折变晶体材料情况下,考虑光生伏打效应与不考虑光伏效应,对短脉冲光在光折变LiNbO3晶体中写入和擦除光栅基本没有影响.     

掺杂光折变LiNbO3晶体光伏效应特性

用前向二波耦合实验方法，对几种掺杂的LiNbO3晶体的光折变性质中出现的光伏现象进行了研究。在双掺杂的Ce：Fe：LiNbO3晶体中得到强纵向光伏效应，该效应可以对衍射效率产生59．7％的调制；在单掺杂的Ce：LiNbO3和Zn：LiNbO3等晶体中，得到由横向光伏效应产生的偏振态记录光栅。     

Photorefractive effect in LiNbO<Subscript>3</Subscript>-based integrated-optical circuits at wavelengths of third telecom window

Original results on investigation of the photorefractive effect in straight channels and integrated-optical circuits such as a directional coupler, Y-splitter and Mach–Zehnder interferometer, exploiting titanium-indiffused and proton-exchanged LiNbO₃ waveguides, are presented. It has been found that the photorefractive damage is non-negligible for IR radiation with wavelengths near 1.5 μm in all circuits studied. The new methods for accurate evaluation of small extents of photorefractive effect are proposed.     

Composition dependence of density of states in a-Se<Subscript>100−<Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis></Subscript>Sn<Subscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis></Subscript> thin films

The present paper reports the DC conductivity measurements at high electric fields in vacuum evaporated amorphous thin films of a-Se_100−x Sn _x (x = 0, 2, 4, 6) glassy alloys. Current-voltage (I–V) characteristics have been measured at various fixed temperatures. In these samples, at low electric fields, ohmic behaviour is observed. However, at high electric fields (E ∼ 10⁴ V/cm), non-ohmic behaviour is observed. An analysis of the experimental data confirms the presence of space charge limited conduction (SCLC) in the glassy materials studied in the present case. From the fitting of the data to the theory of SCLC, the density of defect states (DOS) near Fermi level is calculated. Increase in DOS with increase in Sn concentration has been found which could be correlated with the electronegativity difference between the two elements used here in making the glassy alloys. The peculiar role of the element Sn as an impurity in the pure Se glassy alloy is also discussed.      

Theoretical explanation of electron paramagnetic resonance and optical parameters for Cu<Superscript>2+</Superscript> ion in LiNbO<Subscript>3</Subscript> crystal

The EPR parameters, anisotropic g-factors g _x , g _y and g _z for cu²⁺ ion and hyperfine structure constants A _x , A _y and A _z for Cu²⁺ in LiNbO₃ crystal are calculated by the method of diagonalizing the full Hamiltonian matrix. The crystal-field parameters contact with the crystal structure by the aid of the superposition model. The optical transition parameters are calculated using Zhao crystal-field model. The calculated results are in good agreement with the observed values. The results are discussed.      

Refractive index changes induced by sheet beams with various intensity distributions in LiNbO<Subscript>3</Subscript>:Fe crystal

1 IntroductionSince the discovery of photorefractive effect by Ashkin et al. at the Bell laboratories in 1966[1], such effects of light-induced refractive index changes in electro-optic oxide crystals have attracted great attention because of their potential use in volume holo- graphic storage[2], optical information processing[3], optical spatial solitons[4], and light-induced optical waveguides[5―9]. The photo-induced index changes are the basis ofthe entire photorefractive phenomena in pho…     

Effect of co-sensitization in new hybrid photo-refractive materials based on PVK polymer matrix and inorganic LiNbO<Subscript>3</Subscript> nano-crystals

A new class of photo-refractive (PR) composite materials based on poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PVK) (co-)sensitized with nano-crystalline lithium niobate (LiNbO₃) is presented. The steady-state performance, as well as the kinetics of the photo-refractive grating formation, was investigated by degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) and two-beam-coupling (TBC) experiments. We found an optimum content of LiNbO₃ nano-particles of only 10⁻³ wt.%. Even at concentrations as low as 10⁻⁷ wt.% a notable effect of the nano-crystals was detected. This yields materials with improved PR performance compared to that of the standard PR polymer material sensitized by TNF only. The role of LiNbO₃ nano-particles is discussed in detail: The particles support generation and transport of the free-charge carriers. Furthermore, they increase the electron trap density.     

Study of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">A</Emphasis> ion effect on the chemical bond of Ti and O ions in <Emphasis Type="Italic">A</Emphasis>TiO<Subscript>3</Subscript> (<Emphasis Type="Italic">A</Emphasis> = Sr,Ba, Ca,Pb) crystals with perovskite structure

The local Ti d densities of states in the valence band have been calculated in clusters of ATiO₃ (A = Ca, Sr, Ba, Pb) crystals with perovskite structure by the full multiple scattering method. The d density of states in PbTiO₃ crystal is found to significantly differ from that in other crystals. This fact indicates a significant effect of lead ions on the chemical bond between Ti and O ions in this crystal.