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Crystal Research and Technology |
Cryst. Res. Technol. 43, 369 (2008) - Abstract -
Investigation of structural perfection and faceting in highly Er-doped Yb3Al5O12 crystals
K. Kolodziejak, W. Wierzchowski, K. Wieteska*, M. Malinowski, W. Graeff**, and T. Lukasiewicz
Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Wolczynska 133, 01-919 Warsaw, Poland
*Institute of Atomic Energy, 05-400 Otwock-Swierk, Poland
**HASYLAB at DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22603 Hamburg, Germany
| Keywords | ytterbium aluminum garnet, X-ray topography, crystallographic defects, facets |
| PACS | 61.72.Ff, 81.05.Je, 81.10.Fq, 81.10.-h |
| DOI | 10.1002/crat.200711099 |
The undoped Yb3Al5O12 (YbAG) single crystals and doped with 1.5, 10 and 30 at% erbium were grown by the Czochralski method. The YbAG crystals offer efficient emission of laser beam of 2.94 μm and 1.55 μm important for practical applications in communication and medicine. The crystals were investigated by various synchrotron X-ray diffraction methods including white beam topographic methods, monochromatic beam topography and recording of the rocking curves. The experiments were performed at E2 and F1 experimental stations in HASYLAB. The investigations proved a good crystallographic perfection of the crystals, in most cases revealing only segregation fringes and growth facets. The crystallographic identification of the facets was performed together with direct evaluation of growth front radius from the transmission section topographs. Relative lattice parameter changes connected with erbium segregation were found to be less than 2 x 10-5 inside the segregation fringes and 8 x 10-5 in the facets.
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