ductance of layer. These dependencies showed that hybridization appears when sheet conductance of layer (σ) exceeds some critical value σcr), the magnitude of which changes in wide range and depends on material and plate orientation. For example, for aforementioned hybrid pair A0 SH0 in potassium niobate σcr = 10−3S. If σ < σcr modes are not coupled, i.e. their dispersion curves do not repulse....

Compact electro-optical modulators are demonstrated on thin films of lithium niobate on silicon operating up to 50 GHz. The half-wave voltage length product of the high-performance devices is 3.1 V.cm at DC and less than 6.5 V.cm up to 50 GHz. The 3 dB electrical bandwidth is 33 GHz, with an 18 dB extinction ratio. The third-order intermodulation distortion spurious free dynamic range is 97.3  ...

The luminescence of complex ions like vanadate, niobate and tungstate is well known and has been studied intensively [1]. We have shown that edgeor face-sharing octahedra of this type are luminescent species with high quenching temperatures [2,3]. Examples are Mg4Nb20g and BasSrNb209 with Nb20g8_ anions and Ba3W20g with W2O96anions. These anions consist of face-sharing niobate and tungstate oct...

We present a theoretical model that describes holographic ionic fixing and storage dynamics in photorefractive crystals. Holographic gratings that are based on charge redistribution inevitably decay because of ionic and electronic conduction. Relevant decay rates and transient hologram field expressions are derived. Ionic gratings are partially screened by trapped electrons on readout. The life...

We demonstrate versatility of femtosecond direct laser writing (DLW) technique for microstructuring of iron-doped and as-grown lithium niobate crystals. Formation of extended, metastable, and re-writable refractive index modulation structures is achievable via fast local photorefractive modification of refractive index at the focus of the writing laser beam, with a modulation of up to ∆n ~ 10, ...

Y ou may have heard some of the buzz spawned by the recent paper [CTW+] in Science. That paper described a neutron scattering experiment involving a quasi-1-dimensional cobalt niobate magnet and led to rumors that E8 had been detected “in nature”. This is fascinating, because E8 is a mathematical celebrity and because such a detection seems impossible: it is hard for us to imagine a realistic e...

Fabricating domain reversal directly induced by femtosecond laser is a novel and promising method to induce micron-period or even submicron-period inverted domain structure for it averts the domain spreading and mergence which is hard to avoid by traditional electric-field poling method. In this paper, the domain reversal process in lithium niobate crystal by irradiation of femtosecond pulses w...

Lithium Niobate Microrings In article number 2208113, Rongjin Zhuang, Yang Li, and co-workers develop a wet-etching method for thin film lithium niobate (TFLN), leading to the fabrication of microrings with an intrinsic quality factor over 9 million. This features high throughput, reproducibility, low cost in etching TFLN, showing potential boost mass production integrated TFLN devices fidelity...