Enhancement of second harmonic generation signal in thermally poled glass ceramic with NaNbO3 nanocrystals
MALAKHO, Artem
Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux [ICMCB]
Department of Material Science
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Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux [ICMCB]
Department of Material Science
MALAKHO, Artem
Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux [ICMCB]
Department of Material Science
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Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux [ICMCB]
Department of Material Science
Language
en
Article de revue
This item was published in
Journal of Applied Physics. 2006, vol. 100, n° 6, p. 063103
American Institute of Physics
English Abstract
Glass ceramic composites were prepared by bulk crystallization of NaNbO3 in sodium niobium borate glasses. A homogeneous bulk crystallization of the NaNbO3 phase takes place during heat treatments that produces visible-near ...Read more >
Glass ceramic composites were prepared by bulk crystallization of NaNbO3 in sodium niobium borate glasses. A homogeneous bulk crystallization of the NaNbO3 phase takes place during heat treatments that produces visible-near infrared transparent materials with ~30 nm NaNbO3 nanocrystallites. Upon thermal poling, a strong Na+ depleted nonlinear optical thin layer is observed at the anode side that should induce a large internal static electric field. In addition, the chi(2) response of the poled glass ceramic composites increases from 0.2 up to 1.9 pm/V with the rate of crystallization. Two mechanisms may be considered: a pure structural chi(2) process connected with the occurrence of a spontaneous ferroelectric polarization or an increase of the chi(3) response of the nanocrystallites that enhances the electric field induced second harmonic generation process.Read less <
English Keywords
Glass-based composites
vitroceramics
Frequency conversion
harmonic generation
including higher-order harmonic generation
Glasses
quartz
Nonlinear optical materials
Polarization and depolarization
Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity
Origin
Hal imported