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Microwave modulation of light based on the electrooptical effect in a zinc selenide crystal

I. I. Adrianova, A. A. Berezhnoi, Z. V. Nesterova, V. S. Rusetskaya


Abstract: The results are reported of a study of a microwave modulator utilizing the electrooptical effect in a zinc selenide crystal. It was established that the efficiency of this modulator at 2600 MHz was three times that of a modulator utilizing the electrooptical effect in a KDP crystal.

UDC: 621.376

PACS: 42.79.Hp, 84.40.-x, 42.79.Gn, 42.70.-a

Received: 02.08.1971

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1972, 2:1, 72–73