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哈尔滨工业大学理学硕士学位论文 哈尔滨工业大学理学硕士学位论文 - - II - Abstract Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystal is an important multifunctional photoelectric material. There are many studies and applications in the fields of electrooptics, acoustooptics, photorefractive effect and nonlinear optics. There has been considerable interest in investigating the high-order optical nonlinear properties of damage-resistant doped LiNbO3 series crystals as the nonlinear optical materials. Hafnium-ion (Hf4+) is the new damage-resistant dopant observed in 2004, so lithium niobate doped with hafnium (Hf:LiNbO3) crystal will be the new nonlinear optical material. The studies on the optical nonlinear effect in Hf:LiNbO3 crystal is important significant. In this paper, we performed an experimental investigation of optical nonlinear absorption and nonlinear refraction in Hf:LiNbO3 crystal mainly using Z-scan with femtosecond laser excitation. The single-beam Z-scan technique is a simple, sensitive method to determine both the nonlinear refractive index and nonlinear absorption coefficient of a given material. In this paper, firstly, the fundamental experimental mechanism and theoretical analytic approach of the single-beam Z- scan technique were described, and the developments of Z-scan were discussed. The Hf:LiNbO3 crystal used in our experiment is grown by Czochralski method in an air atmosphere under normal pressure along the (001) of the crystal. It is polarized along the c-axis and cut perpendicularly to the c-axis. The thickness is 0.8 mm. The two surfaces were polished. So the sample satisfied the “thin sample” condition. By investigating the transmittance spectrum of the Hf:LiNbO3 crystal at room temperature, The absorption band edge and the band- gap energy of the crystal was determined. The third-order optical nonlinear effect of Hf:LiNbO3 crystal is studied by Z-scan with femtosecond laser excitation. The two-photon absorption does not occur in the crystal. This is anticipated because the band-gap e