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Different ways of inducing changes in the optical inhomogeneity of single crystals of lithium niobate are described. These include the application of a conductive coating in combination with the heating of samples and exposure to the field of a corona discharge, to UV radiation from a Nd:YAG laser, and to the electron beam of an electron microscope. All such effects can be used to record images.
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Original Russian Text © B.B. Ped’ko, P.V. Efremova, 2016, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2016, Vol. 80, No. 12, pp. 1693–1698.
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Ped’ko, B.B., Efremova, P.V. Controlling optical inhomogeneity of LiNbO3 single crystals. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 80, 1494–1499 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873816120145
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