• DocumentCode
    2860469
  • Title

    Light-induced ionic displacement in CdZnTe:V crystals giving rise to crystalline symmetry breaking and giant nonlinearities

  • Author

    Shwartz, Sharon ; Weil, Raoul ; Segev, Mordechai ; Berger, Shlomo ; Lakin, Eugene ; Zolotoyabko, Emil ; Menon, Vinod M. ; Forrest, Stephen R. ; El-Hanany, Uri

  • Author_Institution
    Solid State Inst., Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report on direct experimental evidence that light-induced ionic displacement, driven by charge separation, is responsible for the enormous enhancement of the nonlinear properties of CdZnTe:V crystals.
  • Keywords
    II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; crystal symmetry; nonlinear optics; semiconductor doping; vanadium; CdZnTe:V; charge separation; crystalline symmetry; giant nonlinearity; light-induced ionic displacement; nonlinear property; Capacitance; Crystallization; Crystals; Dielectric measurements; Electrical resistance measurement; Electrostriction; Impedance measurement; Lighting; Nonlinear optics; Strain measurement; (190.5940) Self-action effects; (230.1150) All-optical devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627571
  • Filename
    4627571