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Detection of randomized nonlinear photonic crystal structure in a non-ferroelectric crystal

A S Aleksandrovsky, A M Vyunishev, A I Zaitsev, A V Zamkov and V G Arkhipkin

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A spontaneously grown randomized nonlinear photonic crystal structure formed by 180° domains has been detected in strontium tetraborate via nonlinear diffraction. Domains have the form of sheets lying in the bc crystallographic plane with the domain walls oriented perpendicularly to the a crystallographic axis. The effective thickness of domains contributing to the nonlinear diffraction is determined from the Fourier spectrum of inverse superlattice vectors, and it falls within the range 180 nm to 6 µm. Nonlinear diffraction at the third harmonic frequency was observed in the same crystal sample.


PACS

42.65.Ky Frequency conversion; harmonic generation, including higher-order harmonic generation

42.70.Mp Nonlinear optical crystals

42.65.An Optical susceptibility, hyperpolarizability

42.70.Qs Photonic bandgap materials

Subjects

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Dates

Issue 9 (September 2007)

Received 7 January 2007, accepted for publication 19 March 2007

Published 22 August 2007



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