Optical activity in photorefractive Bi12TiO20

被引:22
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作者
Shamonina, E
Kamenov, VP
Ringhofer, KH [1 ]
Cedilnik, G
Kiessling, A
Kowarschik, R
Webb, DJ
机构
[1] Fachbereich Phys Univ, D-49069 Osnabruck, Germany
[2] Univ Jena, Inst Angew Opt, D-07743 Jena, Germany
[3] Univ Kent, Phys Lab, Appl Opt Grp, Canterbury CT2 7NR, Kent, England
关键词
sillenites; photorefractive; two-wave mixing; optical activity;
D O I
10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00510-5
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The influence of optical activity on two-wave mixing (TWM) in photorefractive BTO and BSO crystals in the absence of an applied field is studied both theoretically and experimentally. For the conventinal orientations of the grating vector, K parallel to [001] and K perpendicular to [001], the piezoelectric and photoelastic effects are either zero or negligible. This makes an analytical treatment of the TWM problem possible. We obtain an analytical solution for the coupled wave equations of TWM valid for arbitrary optical activity. This result is of special importance for BTO crystals. In these crystals under the condition of maximum energy transfer (\K\r(D) = 1, where r(D) is the Debye radius) neither the approximation of small optical activity nor the one of dominating optical activity is applicable and our analytical solution becomes essential. Our experimental setup uses beams with a trapezoidal overlap that allow us to study the thickness-dependence of the gain in a single measurement. Experimental and theoretical results for a BTO crystal are compared with those for a BSO crystal and are explained in the framework of the model used. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
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页码:62 / 68
页数:7
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