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A stoichiometric lithium niobate crystal (LiNbO3 st) and congruent lithium niobate crystals grown from a charge prepared using cyclohexanone as an extractant (LiNbO3 cong(CHN)) and a charge prepared using cyclohexanone and carboxylic acid dimethylamides as extractants (LiNbO3 cong(CHN + A)) have been characterized by photoinduced light scattering and laser conoscopy. The results demonstrate that the LiNbO3 cong(CHN + A) crystals are rather homogeneous along their growth direction and possess good optical properties, similar to those of the LiNbO3 cong(CHN) crystal. At the same time, the LiNbO3 cong(CHN + A) crystal offers significantly better electro-optical properties (r e = 29.3 pm/V).
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Original Russian Text © N.A. Teplyakova, N.V. Sidorov, M.N. Palatnikov, A.V. Syuy, D.S. Shtarev, 2017, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2017, Vol. 53, No. 11, pp. 1211–1217.
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Teplyakova, N.A., Sidorov, N.V., Palatnikov, M.N. et al. Optical homogeneity and photorefractive properties of stoichiometric and congruent lithium niobate crystals grown using charges of different origins. Inorg Mater 53, 1189–1194 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168517110139
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