铌酸锂晶体中缺陷结构和非挥发全息存储的研究.ppt

Tetravalent Ions Doped Lithium Niobate Crystals Yongfa Kong, Shiguo Liu, Shaolin Chen, and Jingjun Xu Outline 1. Introduction 2. Optical damage resistance 3. Photorefraction 4. Concluding remarks The topic of this workshop is on Optics and New materials. Lithium niobate crystal is dull compared with the vast variability of today’s deliberately engineered materials. Is there any news? Silicon of photonics Lithium niobate (LiNbO3), also called the ‘silicon of photonics’, is indispensable in advanced photonics and nonlinear optics. Lithium niobate (LiNbO3, LN) “Optical silicon” New materials renew life for integrated optics Lawrence Gasman WDM Solutions, November, 2001 Material systems based on silica on silicon, gallium arsenide, lithium niobate, and indium phosphide are contenders for the role of optical silicon. Workshop on Optics and New Materials II The topics include metamaterials, plasmonics, optical lattice, photonic crystals, and novel quantum effects of light-matter interaction. What have been done on Lithium niobate crystal? Good enough? What can tetravalent dopants do? Optical damage Light-induced optical damage, now also named as photorefraction, was discovered in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 crystals. A solution: doping 1980, Mg2+ ions, LN:Mg; “Star of China” The problems of doped LN It is difficult to grow high optical quality crystals. Large amounts of doping concentrations; (such as usually 5 mol% Mg for CLN) Distribution coefficient far from 1.0; (such as 1.2 for Mg) HfO2 doped LiNbO3 (LN:Hf) Optical damage resistance of LN:Hf LN:Hf4 is able to withstand a light density of 5×105 W/cm2 without noticeable beam smearing, which is comparable to that observed in 6.5mol% MgO doped LN (LN:Mg6.5) crystal. ZrO2 doped LiNbO3 (LN:Zr) As the doping concentration reaches 2.0 mol% ZrO2, LN:Zr crystals can withstand a light intensity as high as 2.0?107 W/cm2. At the same experimenta