Venkataraman, Harihara B and Prasad, Syam N and Varma, KBR and Rodriguez, Vincent and Maglione, Mario and Vondermuhll, R and Etourneau, J (2005) Optical diffraction of second-harmonic signals in the LiBO2-Nb2O5 glasses induced by self-organized LiNbO3 crystallites. In: Applied Physics Letters, 87 (9). 091113-091113.
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Abstract
The nanocrystallites ( ≈ 3 nm) of LiNbO3, evolved in the (100−x)LiBO2-xNb2O5 (5x20, in molar ratio) glass system exhibited intense second-harmonic signals in transmission mode when exposed to infrared (IR) light at λ = 1064 nm. The second-harmonic waves were found to undergo optical diffraction which was attributed to the presence of self-organized submicrometer-sized LiNbO3 crystallites that were grown within the glass matrix along the parallel damage fringes created by the IR laser radiation. Micro-Raman studies carried out on the laser-irradiated samples confirmed the self-organized crystallites to be LiNbO3.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Applied Physics Letters |
Publisher: | American Institute of Physics |
Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to American Institute of Physics. |
Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2012 09:14 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jan 2012 09:14 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/43002 |
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