Surface domain engineering in congruent lithium niobate single crystals: a route to sub-micron periodic poling

We describe a technique for surface domain engineering in congruent lithium niobate single crystals. The method is based on conventional electric-field poling, but involves an intentional overpoling step that inverts all the material apart from a thin surface region directly below the patterned phot...

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Main Authors: Busacca, A.C (Author), Sones, C.L (Author), Apostolopoulos, V. (Author), Eason, R.W (Author), Mailis, S. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2002-12.
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