Composition-dependent electro-optic and nonlinear optical properties of KTP-family crystals

M. Roth; M. Tseitlin; N. Angert

doi:10.1016/j.optmat.2004.11.056

Composition-dependent electro-optic and nonlinear optical properties of KTP-family crystals

M. Roth^*, M. Tseitlin, N. Angert

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The Institute of Applied Physics

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Abstract

A series of single crystals of KTP (KTiOPO₄) and its isomorphs (KTiOAsO₄, RbTiOPO₄ and RTiOAsO₄) has been grown from self-fluxes at different concentrations of the solute in the high-temperature solutions. The ferroelectric transition (Curie) temperature of each crystal has been measured by the standard dielectric technique, and the Curie temperatures have been found to increase with the decrease in the initial solute concentration. This phenomenon is explained in terms of the dependence of crystal stoichiometry on the solution chemical composition. Its main consequence is the experimentally observed compositional variation of large KTP-type crystals and the associated variation of the refractive indices. We have shown that the top-seeded solution growth method with pulling on X-oriented seeds assures the smallest variation in the values of the refractive indices. Calculations based on the experimental results for KTP show that such crystals exhibit sufficient optical uniformity for the most important electro-optic and nonlinear optical applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-76
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optical Materials
Volume	28
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2004.11.056
State	Published - Jan 2006
Event	Polish-French-Israeli Sypmosium on Spectroscopy of Modern Materials in Physics - Duration: 27 Sep 2004 → 30 Sep 2004

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Growth from solutions
Oxides
Phase transition and Curie point

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