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Suppression of the photoinduced light scattering in LiNbO3:Fe by redox treatment and incoherent homogeneous illumination

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In this paper, the redox treatment and incoherent homogeneous illumination were tried for the suppression of the photoinduced light scattering in LiNbO3:Fe. Meanwhile, the effects of both the redox treatment and incoherent homogeneous illumination on the holographic storage properties of LiNbO3:Fe were also studied. Our experimental data show that the reduction treatment sacrifices the diffraction efficiency for the suppression of photoinduced light scattering in LiNbO3:Fe. By contrast, incoherent homogeneous illumination with the wavelength of 460 nm is efficient to suppress the photoinduced light scattering without any tradeoff on the holographic storage performance of LiNbO3:Fe. The superiority of homogeneous illumination over the reduction treatment was attributed to the untouched acceptor concentration under the homogeneous illumination.

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The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their valuable comments. This work is partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation (No. 61108060), Excellent Young Researcher Foundation from Hebei University of Technology (No. 2011001), and the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education in 2012.

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    Wenbo Yan, Xunan Shen, Fangfang Jia, Huibin Qiao, Hongjian Chen, Guifeng Chen, Yingjie Lu, Shaofei Zhang & Aidiao Lin

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Yan, W., Shen, X., Shi, L. et al. Suppression of the photoinduced light scattering in LiNbO3:Fe by redox treatment and incoherent homogeneous illumination. Appl. Phys. A 108, 615–620 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-012-6939-x

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