The structural and optical properties of potassium titanyl phosphate and its analogues

✍ Scribed by K.W. Godfrey; P.A. Thomas; B.E. Watts

• Book ID: 103952957
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 789 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-5107
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-5107(91)90077-9

✦ Synopsis

Potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) single crystals were grown using a high temperature solution technique. A series of growth runs was performed to produce analogue crystals in which varying percentages of potassium, titanium and phosphorus were replaced by other elements. These analogue crystals and other reported data were used to make a systematic study of the degree of pseudosymmetry and structural distortions in compounds of the KTP family. Where single crystal secondharmonic generation measurements were available, efforts were made to link the structural distortions to the observed non-linear optical properties.