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Fabrication and Characterization of Thickness Mode Piezoelectric Devices for Atomization and Acoustofluidics
Published on: August 5, 2020
Self-modulation of light in piezoelectric crystals
1Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, 210093 Nanjing, China. cztan@nju.edu.cn
Abstract:
Spectroscopic measurements were used to monitor the optical interference of ordinary (o-ray) waves with extraordinary (e-ray) waves by incidence of plane-polarized light and transmission through piezoelectriccrystals (alpha-quartz, LiNbO3, and LiTaO3). This observation confirms that the rotations of the vibration planes of the o- and e-ray waves originate from the dynamic gratings induced by the electric field of the incident light. This is a self-modulation process of the polarized incident light in piezoelectric crystals.
