Insulating Materials For Optoelectronics New Developments

This review volume presents new developments in the preparation, physical characterization and applications of insulating materials for Optoelectronics. Insulators occupy a leading position as laser and optical amplifier hosts, electrooptic and acoustooptic modulators, frequency doublers and optical parametric oscillators, photorefractive devices and radiator detectors. These applications rely heavily on the development of advanced techniques for the preparation of both bulk and waveguide structures, the adequate knowledge of the microscopic behaviour defects, impurities and a thorough understanding of their response to electromagnetic fields. All these topics relating basic physicochemical aspects and applied performance are authoritatively discussed in the book. Contents:Pulsed Laser Deposition of Films for Optical Applications (C N Afonso)Preparation of Single Crystal Fibers (W M Yen)Preparation and Characterization of Composite Materials: Organic Molecules in Inorganic Hosts (D Levy)Characterization of Point Defects in Photorefractive Oxide Crystals by Paramagnetic Resonance Methods (O F Schirmer et al.)Hyperfine Techniques for Defect Studies (R Vianden)Optical Characterization of Solid State Lasers (L E Bausa & J G Sole)Channeling Investigations of Oxide Materials for Optoelectronic Applications (A Kling et al.)X-Ray Standing Wave Determination of Lattice Positions of Impurities in Lithium Niobate (T Gog & G Materlik)New Developments in the Simulation of Electrooptic Oxides (H Donnenberg)The Photorefractive Effect in Crystals (C Medrano & P Günter)Holographic Memories with Photorefractive Materials (C Alves et al.)Proton Exchange Waveguides in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3: Structural and Optical Properties (M P De Micheli et al.)Glasses for Optoelectronic Devices (P Mazzoldi & G C Righini)Application of Ion Implantation for Optoelectronics and Photonics (P D Townsend)Semiinsulating Material for Radiation Detection: HgI2 (E Diéguez & P Olmos) Readership: Materials scientists, physicists and engineers. keywords:Laser Heated Pedestal Growth (LHPG);Single Crystals;Crystal Fibers;Optoelectronics;Materials;Insulators;Electrooptics;Lithium Niobate;Waveguides;Photorefractives;Lasers;Defects;Optics;Single Crystal Fibers;Pulsed Laser Deposition;Solid State Lasers;Photorefractive Materials;Composite Materials;Hyperfine Techniques;Holographic Memories;Ion Implantation;Light Waveguides;Optoelectronic Devices

This book presents the principles of non-linear integrated optics. The first objective is to provide the reader with a thorough understanding of integrated optics so that they may be able to develop the theoretical and experimental tools to study and control the linear and non-linear optical properties of waveguides. The potential use of these structures can then be determined in order to realize integrated optical components for light modulation and generation. The theoretical models are accompanied by experimental tools and their setting in order to characterize the studied phenomenon. The passage from theory to practice makes the comprehension of the physical phenomena simple and didactic. The book also gives a presentation of the industrial applications of the integrated optical components. The studied topics range from the theory of waveguides and the linear and non-linear optical characterization techniques to photonic crystals. This last field constitutes a major challenge of photonic technologies of the 21st century.

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The book addresses many problems of ion exchange processes in LiNbO3, LiTaO3 and KTiOPO4 ferroelectrics and II-VI semiconductor single crystals for integrated optics applications. The authors start with the fundamentals of ion exchange processes in solids (Chapter 1). Chapter 1 can be considered also as an enlarged introduction to the book. Starting with Chapter 2, the general properties of LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 crystals, the methods used to study optical waveguides in these crystals as well as advanced preparation methods of optical waveguides are reviewed. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 are devoted to recent progress in the ion exchange processes in LiNbO3, LiTaO3 and KTiOPO4 crystals, respectively, and Chapter 6 summarizes the main applications of ion-exchanged waveguides in modern integrated optics. Finally, Chapter 7 deals with recently established ion exchange processes in II-VI semiconductors.

Laser ablation describes the interaction of intense optical fields with matter, in which atoms are selectively driven off by thermal or nonthermal mechanisms. This is the first book that combines the most recent results in this rapidly advancing field with authoritative treatment of laser ablation and its applications, including the physics of high-power laser-matter interaction.

Semiconductors and dielectrics are two essential materials found in cell phones and computers, for example, and both are manufactured by growing crystals. Edited by the organizers of the International Workshop on Crystal Growth Technology, this ready reference is essential reading for materials scientists, chemists, physicists, computer hardware manufacturers, engineers, and those working in the chemical and semiconductor industries. They have assembled an international team of experts who present the current challenges, latest methods and new applications for producing these materials necessary for the electronics industry using bulk crystal growth technology. From the contents: * General aspects of crystal growth technology * Compound semiconductors * Halides and oxides * Crystal growth for sustaining energy * Crystal machining

The X-ray standing wave (XSW) technique is an X-ray interferometric method combining diffraction with a multitude of spectroscopic techniques. It is extremely powerful for obtaining information about virtually all properties of surfaces and interfaces on the atomic scale. However, as with any other technique, it has strengths and limitations. The proper use and necessary understanding of this method requires knowledge in quite different fields of physics and technology. This volume presents comprehensively the theoretical background, technical requirements and distinguished experimental highlights of the technique. Containing contributions from the most prominent experts of the technique, such as Andre Authier, Boris Batterman, Michael J Bedzyk, Jene Golovchenko, Victor Kohn, Michail Kovalchuk, Gerhard Materlik and D Phil Woodruff, the book equips scientists with all the necessary information and knowledge to understand and use the XSW technique in practically all applications.