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Magnesium-oxide-doped stoichiometric lithium niobate has been produced using the technique of top-seeded solution growth from a lithium-rich melt. Optical tests, performed with a combination of argon-ion laser lines, have confirmed a previously published result (at 532 nm) that this material has superior resistance to photorefractive damage. This material has been shown, for the first time, to be amenable to periodic poling. Optical parametric oscillator tests have shown that this material maintains the advantages of periodically poled, congruent, un-doped lithium niobate while showing no evidence of photorefractive damage under typical operating conditions. Operating wavelengths as a function of quasi-phase-matching period and temperature have been measured for the optical parametric oscillator, providing useful new information about refractive-index dispersion in this material. This work establishes periodically poled, magnesium-oxide-doped stoichiometric lithium niobate as a viable material for nonlinear optics.
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Received: 28 June 2000 / Revised version: 12 September 2000 / Published online: 7 February 2001
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Huang, L., Hui, D., Bamford, D. et al. Periodic poling of magnesium-oxide-doped stoichiometric lithium niobate grown by the top-seeded solution method . Appl Phys B 72, 301–306 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400100493
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400100493