Novel electrostatic mechanism in the thermal instability ofz‐cut LiNbO3interferometers
作者:
Perry Skeath,
C. H. Bulmer,
S. C. Hiser,
W. K. Burns,
期刊:
Applied Physics Letters
(AIP Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 49,
issue 19
页码: 1221-1223
ISSN:0003-6951
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1063/1.97419
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Experimental data fromz‐cut LiNbO3Mach–Zehnder interferometers show that electrical contact to the device electrodes leads to the large thermal instability of the intrinsic phase bias. Withdrawing contact from the electrodes causes the thermal instability to virtually disappear. A model is proposed in which contact to the electrodes creates strong gradients in the local surface potential near the electrodes when unscreened pyroelectrically induced surface charges are present, independent of whether the probes are floating or grounded. The resulting differential electric field strength in the interferometer branches gives rise to the observed thermal instability, which is five orders of magnitude larger than the calculated instability due to the pyroelectric effect alone. The model of the instability mechanism is used to suggest methods of reducing the instability.
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