Origin of electrooptical sensitivity of glasses

Dmitrii K. Tagantsev; Andrey A. Lipovskii; Boris V. Tatarintsev; Andrey A. Vetrov

doi:10.1117/12.525522

19 November 2003 Origin of electrooptical sensitivity of glasses

Dmitrii K. Tagantsev, Andrey A. Lipovskii, Boris V. Tatarintsev, Andrey A. Vetrov

Proceedings Volume 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.525522
Event: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, 2002, Florence, Italy

Abstract

A niobium-lithium-silicate glass demonstrating a record Kerr coefficient (266•10^-16 m/V²) has been formed, and transparent glass-ceramics demonstrating Kerr coefficients exceeding 6000•10^-16 m/V² has been elaborated. A conception of the origin of electrooptical sensitivity of glasses is developed. It supposes that the fluctuation microinhomogeneities peculiar to as-prepared glasses are the regions with exact crystalline symmetry, and that just those regions are the pre-nuclei of the crystallites, which form in glass-ceramics in heat treatment. Having the composition and the symmetry of electrooptical ferroelectric crystal, these regions appear to condition high Kerr sensitivities of both the glasses and the glass-ceramics formed from these glasses.

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Dmitrii K. Tagantsev, Andrey A. Lipovskii, Boris V. Tatarintsev, and Andrey A. Vetrov "Origin of electrooptical sensitivity of glasses", Proc. SPIE 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.525522

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