Electronic Resource
Woodbury, NY
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Applied Physics Letters
51 (1987), S. 889-891
ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
The first study of the photorefractive properties of doped CdTe has demonstrated high sensitivity for optical processing applications. Of the binary II-VI and III-V semiconductors, CdTe has the highest electro-optic coefficient r41 in the infrared, some three times larger than that of GaAs and InP. Deep levels introduced into CdTe exhibit appropriate absorption and photoconductivity at 1.06 μm by doping with V and Ti impurities. Photorefractive beam coupling experiments in CdTe:V gave small signal gains of 0.7 cm−1, and diffraction efficiencies with no applied electrical field of 0.7%. Thus, CdTe appears to be superior to previously studied III-V semiconductors, in the near-infrared spectrum. Optimization of doping and trap densities is expected to result in gain which exceeds the absorption loss, thereby allowing phase conjugation with infrared injection lasers.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.98845
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