Structuring of material parameters in lithium niobate crystals with low-mass, high-energy ion radiation |
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Authors: | K Peithmann P-D Eversheim J Goetze M Haaks H Hattermann S Haubrich F Hinterberger L Jentjens W Mader N L Raeth H Schmid M-R Zamani-Meymian K Maier |
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Institution: | 1. Helmholtz-Institut f??r Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Universit?t Bonn, Nussallee 14?C16, 53115, Bonn, Germany 2. Institut f??r Anorganische Chemie, Universit?t Bonn, R?merstr. 164, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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Abstract: | Ferroelectric lithium niobate crystals offer a great potential for applications in modern optics. To provide powerful optical components, tailoring of key material parameters, especially of the refractive index n and the ferroelectric domain landscape, is required. Irradiation of lithium niobate crystals with accelerated ions causes strong structured modifications in the material. The effects induced by low-mass, high-energy ions (such as 3He with 41?MeV, which are not implanted, but transmit through the entire crystal volume) are reviewed. Irradiation yields large changes of the refractive index ??n, improved domain engineering capability within the material along the ion track, and waveguiding structures. The periodic modification of ??n as well as the formation of periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) (supported by radiation damage) is described. Two-step knock-on displacement processes, 3He??Nb and 3He??O causing thermal spikes, are identified as origin for the material modifications. |
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