A possible mechanism for the explanation of the increase of extraordinary refractive index in LiNbO3 caused by the proton-exchange process is reported. It is proposed that the change in spontaneous polarisation, which can vary the refractive index of the crystal through the electro-optic effect, may be a main factor in the production of such an index change.
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Hou et al. (1991) studied this question.