Integrated electro-optic lens/scanner in a LiTaO3 single crystal.

Appl Opt

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.

Published: March 1999

We report what we believe to be the first stand-alone integrated electro-optic lens and scanner fabricated on a single crystal of Z-cut LiTaO(3). The independently controlled lens and scanner components consist of lithographically defined domain-inverted regions extending through the thickness of the crystal. A lens power of 0.233 cm(-1) kV(-1) and a deflection angle of 12.68 mrad kV(-1) were observed at the output of the device.

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