Ferroelectric Crystals for Photonic Applications [electronic resource] : Including Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterization Techniques / edited by Pietro Ferraro, Simonetta Grilli, Paolo Natale.

Fabrication -- Micro-Structuring and Ferroelectric Domain Engineering of Single Crystal Lithium Niobate -- Fabrication and Characterization of Self-Assembled Ferroelectric Linear and Nonlinear Photonic Crystals: GaN and LiNbO3 -- Sub-Micron Structuring of LiNbO3 Crystals withMulti-Period and Complex Geometries -- Nonlinear Optical Waveguides in Stoichiometric Lithium Tantalate -- 3-D Integrated Optical Microcircuits in Lithium Niobate Written by Spatial Solitons -- Characterization -- Light Aided Domain Patterning and Rare Earth Emission Based Imaging of Ferroelectric Domains -- Visual and Quantitative Characterization ofFerroelectric Crystals and Related Domain Engineering Processes by Interferometric Techniques -- New Insights into Ferroelectric Domain Imaging with Piezoresponse Force Microscopy -- Structural Characterization of Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Crystals by High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction -- Applications -- Nonlinear Interactions in Periodic andQuasi-Periodic Nonlinear Photonic Crystals -- Domain-Engineered Ferroelectric Crystals forNonlinear and Quantum Optics -- Photonic and Phononic Band Gap Properties ofLithium Niobate -- Lithium Niobate Whispering Gallery Resonators: Applications and Fundamental Studies -- Applications of Domain Engineering inFerroelectrics for Photonic Applications -- Electro-Optics Effect in Periodically Domain-Inverted Ferroelectrics Crystals: Principlesand Applications.

This book deals with the latest achievements in the field of ferroelectric domain engineering and characterization at micron- and nano-scale dimensions and periods. The book collects the results obtained in the last years by world scientific leaders in the field, thus providing a valid and unique overview of the state-of-the-art and also a view to future applications of those engineered materials in the field of photonics.

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