Synthesis of single-crystal low-loss LiB(3)O(5) nanowire and its optical properties

Optical-quality single-crystal LiB(3)O(5) (LBO) nanowires are synthesized for the first time using a sol–gel method. The LBO nanowires possess diameters ranging from 200 to 800 nm and lengths of up to 200 μm, and exhibit excellent uniformity, smooth surfaces, and good mechanical properties. A typica...

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Autores principales: Qu, Guang-Yuan, Yang, Cheng-Wei, Cui, Guo-xin, Zhang, Xue-Jin, Lu, Yan-Qing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5171863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27991549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39389
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Sumario:Optical-quality single-crystal LiB(3)O(5) (LBO) nanowires are synthesized for the first time using a sol–gel method. The LBO nanowires possess diameters ranging from 200 to 800 nm and lengths of up to 200 μm, and exhibit excellent uniformity, smooth surfaces, and good mechanical properties. A typical propagating loss of 0.038 dB/μm at 532 nm is obtained for a 620 nm-diameter nanowire. This is a decrease of one order of magnitude compared with that of a β-BaB(2)O(4) (BBO) nanowire with similar diameter, which makes the LBO nanowire a promising candidate to construct miniaturized nonlinear photonic devices.

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