Electrooptical effects in glass forming liquids of dipolar nano-clusters embedded in a paraelectric environment

Alexander Gumennik; Yael Kurzweil-Segev; Aharon J. Agranat

doi:10.32607/actanaturae.11000

Electrooptical effects in glass forming liquids of dipolar nano-clusters embedded in a paraelectric environment

Alexander Gumennik^*, Yael Kurzweil-Segev, Aharon J. Agranat

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Department of Applied Physics

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Abstract

Studies of the electrooptic effect in potassium tantalate niobate (KTN) and Li doped KTN in the vicinity of the ferroelectric phase transition are reported. It was observed that in KTN the standard electrooptic behavior is accompanied by electrically induced depolarization of the light traversing through the crystal. This behavior is attributed to the influence of the fluctuating dipolar clusters that are formed in KTN above the ferroelectric phase transition due to the emergence of the Nb ions out of the center of inversion of the unit cell. It was shown in addition that this behavior is inhibited in Li doped KTN, which enables exploiting the large electrooptic effect in these crystals.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	332-343
Number of pages	12
Journal	Optical Materials Express
Volume	1
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.32607/actanaturae.11000
State	Published - Jul 2011

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This research was supported by the Israel Ministry of Science The “Eshkol Scholarship” of Israel Ministry of Science (grant No. 3-4341), the Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 1519/08), and the Brojde Center for Innovative Engineering and Computer Science.

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© 2011 Optical Society of America. All rights reserved.

Keywords

(160.2100) Electro-optical materials
(160.2710) Inhomogeneous optical media
(250.4110) Modulators

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Electrooptical effects in glass forming liquids of dipolar nano-clusters embedded in a paraelectric environment

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