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A Model for the Optical Properties of Reduced Congruent Lithium Niobate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

David A. Dutt
Affiliation:
Sherman Fairchild Laboratory, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
F.J. Feigl
Affiliation:
Sherman Fairchild Laboratory, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
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Abstract

A detailed optical absorption study has been performed on a series of chemically reducedlithium niobate crystals. A threshold absorption above 3.8 eV has been identified as a bandgap excitation, while the entire subbandgap absorption has been demonstrated to be due to a single defect via optical bleaching experiments. A model based on a bipolaron is proposed to explain the observed optical properties.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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