AbstractsPhysics

The applications of ultraviolet UV lasers in the fields like optical newlinedata storage telecommunications medical diagnostics and entertainment have newlineincreased in higher quantum in the recent years The nonlinear optical crystals newlineact as the best alternative to excimer lasers for the production of UV laser newlinefrequencies since the usage of excimer lasers pose great complications in newlineusage and involve corrosive gases Several nonlinear optical NLO single newlinecrystals based on semi organics are being worked world wide by several newlineresearch groups newlineThe present thesis consists of six chapters A brief review on semiorganic newlineamino acid halide single crystals employed in NLO applications is newlinesummarized An introduction to Non linear optics amino acids and semiorganic newlinecrystals is given The crystal growth techniques involved in the newlinepresent investigations are discussed newlineThe growth of L glutamic acid hydro chloride L gluHCl crystals newlinefrom low temperature solution growth has been carried out and newlinecharacterization studies were performed newline%%%reference p107-116.