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Fast photorefractive response in strongly reduced near-stoichiometric LiNbO3 crystals

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Abstract

The photorefractive response time of LiNbO3 crystal is of the order of minutes, and such a long response time limits the crystal’s practical applications. We report the photorefractive properties of nominally pure near-stoichiometric LiNbO3 crystal that is strongly reduced in vacuum. A short photorefractive response time of the order of 100 ms is measured at a wavelength of 514.5 nm, with incident light intensity of 1.6 W/cm2, and possible corresponding mechanisms are discussed. To our knowledge this is the first experimental evidence of a subsecond photorefractive response in pure LiNbO3 crystals. The diffraction efficiency of a holographic grating written in this reduced crystal is low but can be enhanced by an externally applied electric field.

© 2001 Optical Society of America

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