11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Temperature-dependent synchrotron absorption measurements of MgO:LiNbO3

13 Dec 2022, 15:15
15m
Room E2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room E2

Adelaide Convention Centre

Speaker

Ameera Jose (MQ Photonics Research Centre, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University)

Description

We report synchrotron absorption measurements for MgO:LiNbO3 over a wide range of wavenumbers and temperatures. Spectra reveal the existence of an unexpected mode at 3.15 THz at all temperatures which explains the crystal's difficulty of THz generation at higher frequencies.

Author

Ameera Jose (MQ Photonics Research Centre, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University)

Co-authors

Dr Ondrej Kitzler (MQ Photonics Research Centre, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University) Prof. Helen Pask (MQ Photonics Research Centre, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University) Prof. David Spence (MQ Photonics Research Centre, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University)

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