Abstract
Volume holograms are thermally fixed in a pure and an iron doped potassium niobate crystal through the screening of a photorefractive space-charge field by a nonphotoactive species at elevated temperature (110 °C). The nonphotoactive species is identified as the hydrogen ion. Fixed holograms are reconstructed at different temperatures. A diffraction efficiency of 16% in a 6 mm thick KNbO3:Fe sample is measured. The time constant and activation energy associated with the thermal induced decay of the hologram are determined to be 2.9×10-7 s and 0.81 eV for the KNbO3:Fe sample, and 1.35×10-7 s and 0.79 eV for the pure KNbO3 sample.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3966-3968 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 26 |
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| State | Published - 23 Dec 1996 |