Ultrafast acousto-optic mode conversion in optically birefringent ferroelectrics
oleh: Mariusz Lejman, Gwenaelle Vaudel, Ingrid C. Infante, Ievgeniia Chaban, Thomas Pezeril, Mathieu Edely, Guillaume F. Nataf, Mael Guennou, Jens Kreisel, Vitalyi E. Gusev, Brahim Dkhil, Pascal Ruello
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2016-08-01 |
Deskripsi
Electrically driven acousto-optic light modulators are limited to frequencies of a few hundred megahertz and are typically no smaller than a few micrometres. Here, the authors demonstrate gigahertz acousto-optic conversion of light polarization in a region of a few nanometres using pulsed laser stimulation of a ferroelectric.