Sensitivity and fatigue of LiTaO3 for holographic recording
- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 25 (1) , 38-39
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1655269
Abstract
The sensitivity of LiTaO3 crystals to hologram formation has been observed to vary with impurity concentration. For a writing wavelength of 488.0 nm and power density of 1.1 W/cm2 the sensitivity varied from a value comparable to the most sensitive doped LiNbO3 for an impure crystal to a value more than 5 orders of magnitude smaller for a purer crystal. Fatigue effects were observed upon write‐erase cycling. These effects were dependent upon writing and erasure polarization and power density and could be minimized by proper choice of optical parameters.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Optically Induced Change of Refractive Indices in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3Journal of Applied Physics, 1969
- OPTICALLY-INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX INHOMOGENEITIES IN LiNbO3 AND LiTaO3Applied Physics Letters, 1966