Measurement of Refractive Index and Absorption Coefficient of Congruent and Stoichiometric Lithium Niobate in the Terahertz Range

Unferdorben, Márta and Szaller, Zsuzsanna and Hajdara, Ivett and Hebling, János and Pálfalvi, László (2015) Measurement of Refractive Index and Absorption Coefficient of Congruent and Stoichiometric Lithium Niobate in the Terahertz Range. Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 36 (12). pp. 1203-1209. ISSN 1866-6892

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Abstract

Time domain THz spectroscopy measurements were performed on a series of undoped and Mg-doped congruent lithium niobate crystals with 1.2, 6.1, and 8.4 mol% Mg concentrations and on undoped and Mg-doped stoichiometric lithium niobate crystals with 0.7, 1.5, and 4.2 mol% Mg concentrations with polarization parallel (extraordinary) and perpendicular (ordinary) to the z axis of the crystal at 300 K. The absorption coefficient and refractive index spectra were determined in the THz frequency range from 0.25 to ~2.5 THz. In the case of congruent samples for both polarizations, both the refractive index and the absorption coefficient have minimal values for compositions close to the photorefractive threshold. In the case of stoichiometric samples, similar tendencies close to the photorefractive threshold at lower Mg concentration were observed but only for extraordinary polarization, while for ordinary polarization the measured values, especially for the absorption coefficient, were only weakly dependent on the Mg content.

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