@ARTICLE{Xu_J.-Q._Electro-optic_2017,
 author={Xu, J.-Q. and Du, W.-Y. and Sun, Q. and Wong, W.-H. and Yu, D.-Y. and Pun, E.Y.-B. and Zhang, D.-L.},
 volume={vol. 25},
 number={No 2},
 journal={Opto-Electronics Review},
 pages={89-92},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2017},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences (under the auspices of the Committee on Electronics and Telecommunication) and Association of Polish Electrical Engineers in cooperation with Military University of Technology},
 abstract={Composition effect on electro-optic (EO) properties of a LiNbO3 (LN) single-crystal has been investigated in a Li2O-content range of 47.0–49.95 mol%. Some non-congruent LN crystals with different Li2O-contents were prepared by performing Li-deficient or Li-rich vapour transport equilibration treatments on as-grown congruent LN crystals. Unclamped EO coefficients γ13 and γ33 of these samples were measured by a Mach–Zehnder interferometric method. The measurements show that in the Li-deficient regime both γ13 and γ33 increase by ∼8% as Li2O-content decreases from the congruent 48.6 mol% to the 47.0 mol% in the Li-deficient regime. The feature is desired for the EO application of the Li-deficient crystal. In the near-stoichiometric regime, both γ13 and γ33 reveal a non-monotonic dependence. As the Li2O-content increases from the 48.6 mol%, the EO coefficient decreases. Around Li2O-content 49.5 mol%, a minimum is reached. After that, the EO coefficient recovers slowly. At the stoichiometric composition, it recovers to a value close to that at the congruent point. Comparison shows that different crystal growth methods give rise to different defect structure features and hence different composition effects.},
 type={Article},
 title={Electro-optic coefficients of a non-congruent lithium niobate fabricated by vapour transport equilibration: Composition effect},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/115354/PDF/main.pdf},
 keywords={LiNbO3 single-crystal, Electro-optic property, Composition effect, Defects},
}