Multiphoton photoluminescence contrast in switched Mg:LiNbO3 and Mg:LiTaO3 single crystals
Multiphoton photoluminescence contrast in switched Mg:LiNbO3 and Mg:LiTaO3 single crystals
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4896579
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发表时间:
2014-09
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4
通讯作者:
P. Reichenbach;T. Kämpfe;A. Thiessen;A. Haußmann;T. Woike;L. Eng
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作者:
P. Reichenbach;T. Kämpfe;A. Thiessen;A. Haußmann;T. Woike;L. Eng
We observed a multiphoton luminescence contrast between virgin and single-switched domains in Mg-doped LiNbO3 (LNO) and LiTaO3 (LTO) single crystals with different doping levels of 0–7 mol. % and 0–8 mol. %, respectively. A luminescence contrast in the range of 3% was measured between as-grown and electrically inverted domain areas in Mg:LNO samples, while the contrast reaches values of up to 30% for the Mg:LTO case. Under annealing, an exponential decay of the domain contrast was observed. The activation energy of about 1 eV being determined for the decay allowed a comparison with reported activation energies of associated defects, clearly illustrating a strong connection between thermal contrast decay and the H+ and Li+-ion mobility. Finally, performing similar experiments on oxidized samples undoubtedly demonstrated that the origin of the reported luminescence contrast is strongly connected with lithium ions.