Photorefractive planar waveguides in BaTiO<sub>3</sub> fabricated by ion-beam implantation

For the first time to our knowledge, photorefractive properties have been observed in planar waveguides fabricated by the technique of ion-beam implantation in BaTiO<sub>3</sub> single crystals. The implantation was carried out by using 1.5 MeV H<sup>+</sup> ions at a dose of...

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Main Authors: Youden, K.E (Author), James, S.W (Author), Eason, R.W (Author), Chandler, P.J (Author), Zhang, L. (Author), Townsend, P.D (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 1992.
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520 |a For the first time to our knowledge, photorefractive properties have been observed in planar waveguides fabricated by the technique of ion-beam implantation in BaTiO<sub>3</sub> single crystals. The implantation was carried out by using 1.5 MeV H<sup>+</sup> ions at a dose of 10<sup>-16</sup> ions/cm<sup>2</sup>. For a given input power, a decrease in the effective photo-refractive two-beam coupling response time of ≥10<sup>2</sup> has been observed, owing to a combination of optical confinement within the waveguide and possible modification of charge-transport properties induced through implantation. Experiments carried out on the two-beam coupling gain show that the gain direction has been reversed in the waveguide compared with that of the bulk crystal. 
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