Abstract
The advent of the laser in the early 1960s brought a surge of interest in techniques to modify, deflect, and change the frequency of laser light. These functions are extensively used today in such technological applications as displays, telecommunications, analog to digital conversion, printing, and data storage devices. Of the many competing technologies, optical devices fabricated in ferroelectric materials like lithium niobate and lithium tantalate offer a versatile solid-state platform to do all of these functions integrated seamlessly in the same device. By patterning these crystals into periodic gratings, the wavelength of light can be converted to different wavelengths through nonlinear optical effects to create new laser sources not readily available. If the domains are patterned into the shape of lenses or prisms, light passing through the crystal can be focused and deflected through the electro-optic effect. By precisely creating the domain structures in ferroelectric crystals, these functions and others can be combined in a single device offering large design flexibility, compactness, and utility.
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The author would like to thank the Gopalan group at The Penn State University where the domain engineered device work was performed. The writing of this document was supported in part by an appointment to the Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering, sponsored by Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation) as Operator of Sandia National Laboratories under its US Department of Energy Contract Number DE-AC04-94AL85000. The submitted manuscript has been authored by a contractor of the US Government under contract No. DE-AC04-94AL85000. Accordingly, the US Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes.
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Scrymgeour, D.A. (2014). Applications of Domain Engineering in Ferroelectrics for Photonic Applications. In: Ferraro, P., Grilli, S., De Natale, P. (eds) Ferroelectric Crystals for Photonic Applications. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 91. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41086-4_14
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