Fast photorefractive response of vanadium-doped lithium niobate in the visible region.
A series of vanadium-doped lithium niobate crystals was grown and their photorefractive properties were investigated with a 532 nm laser. At a total light intensity of 471 mW/cm(2), a short response time of only 0.57 s was achieved for 0.1 mol.% vanadium in LiNbO(3). The photorefractive process is dominated by the diffusion field instead of the photovoltaic field. The dominant charge carriers are electrons. The possible mechanism for the fast photorefractive response is discussed.
The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics and TEDA Applied Physics School, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China.
Yinfeng
Y
Dong
Shiguo
S
Liu
Yongfa
Y
Kong
Shaolin
S
Chen
Romano
R
Rupp
Jingjun
J
Xu