Output details
13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Southampton
Precision nanoscale domain engineering of lithium niobate via UV laser induced inhibition of poling
Significance of output:
A new technique for precise laser direct-writing of complex structures into single crystalline optical materials.
Led to international collaborations (Bonn, Germany, Elisabeth Soergel soergel@uni-bonn.de ), (Ensenada, Mexico, Roger Cudney, rcudney@cicese.mx ) and was background to a recently funded EPSRC grant (EP/K023454, 2013-14, £186K), and imminent patent filing. This first report has been cited and exploited by groups in Russia, China, Japan and Germany, and led to an EPSRC PhD+ fellowship (2011-12, £50,000) for Ying, and 4 invited papers including Rank Prize meeting (Grasmere, May, 2009).
The mechanisms and future applications for this versatile method are clearly elucidated and experimentally verified.
