Light-induced absorption in photorefractive strontium-barium niobate

Author

Orlov, Sergei ; Segev, Mordechai ; Yariv, Amnon ; Neurgaonkar, R.R.

Author_Institution

California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

25-29 Jul 1994

Firstpage

197

Lastpage

199

Abstract

Photorefractive (PR) strontium barium niobate (SBN) has been the subject of extensive research in recent years. Large PR nonlinearities and relatively fast response time at low power levels make this material a preferred candidate for a variety of applications such as optical data storage. Intensity dependent absorption and related phenomena were discovered and investigated extensively in different PR crystals and at different optical light intensities spanning the range of 1 mW/cm² to 10⁴ W/cm². In this study we investigate the light-induced absorption through pump-probe measurement at relatively low optical power densities in photorefractive SBN:60 and SBN:75

Keywords

barium compounds; chromium; light absorption; nonlinear optics; optical saturable absorption; photorefractive materials; strontium compounds; (SrBa)NbO₃:Cr; 488 nm; SrBaNbO₃ :Cr; fast response time; intensity dependent absorption; light-induced absorption; optical data storage; optical light intensities; photorefractive strontium-barium niobate; pump-probe measuremen; relatively low optical power densities; Absorption; Barium; Crystalline materials; Delay; Niobium compounds; Optical materials; Optical pumping; Photorefractive effect; Photorefractive materials; Strontium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 1994. NLO '94 IEEE

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1473-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLO.1994.470836

Filename

470836