Epitaxial growth of RbTiOPO4 films on KTiOPO4 substrates by excimer laser ablation technique

Abstract

Transparent single-phase rubidium titanyl phosphate (RTP) films having excellent crystalline properties have been deposited by excimer laser ablation method on (001)- and (010)-oriented potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) substrates, respectively. X-ray θ-2θ scans and pole figures showed that the laser-ablated RTP films grew epitaxially on, and had exactly the same orientations of, the underlying KTP substrates. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis revealed that the RTP films prepared with this method are nearly stoichiometric. It appears to be possible to use these films as waveguides having sharp waveguide/substrate interfaces.