The electro-optic effect in proustite (Ag3AsS3)
- 1 July 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 1 (7) , 949-950
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/1/7/420
Abstract
Proustite is an acentric uniaxial crystal of class 3 m which is transparent from 06 to 13 μm. The half-wave voltages of `transverse' electro-optic modulators using proustite under `clamped' conditions have been measured for two crystal orientations using visible light from a He-Ne gas laser. In each case the half-wave voltage was about 10 kv, leading to the following values of `clamped' (high-frequency) electrooptic coefficients: n03r22=29×10−10 cm V−1 and n03r13-ne3r 33 = 70×10−10 cm V−1. Resistivity and dielectric constant measurements have also been made on these crystals.Keywords
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- SYNTHETIC PROUSTITE (Ag3AsS3): A NEW CRYSTAL FOR OPTICAL MIXINGApplied Physics Letters, 1967