Growth and single-domain state of KTP crystals

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Authors: Kuleshov Yu. V., Krakovskiy V. A., Serebrennikov L. Ya., Tik A. A., Pugovkin A. V., Shvartsman G. I.

Annotation: We investigated the method of growth of KTP crystals. In this paper we offer the technique of single-domain state – after-the-growth wafer processing Z-cut of KTP crystals, which allows to make the rotation vector of the spontaneous polarization of ferroelectric crystals in the electric field at temperatures close to Curie temperature. There described the technique for chemical etching of plates, which allows to visualize the domain structure of crystals.

Keywords: crystals of ktp, the flux crystallization, chemical etching, single-domain state