Photorefractive Effects and Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Photorefractive Transport and Multiwave Mixing

   • D. D. Nolte

   Pages 1-66

3. The Photorefractive Effect in Ferroelectric Oxides

   • M. H. Garrett, G. D. Fogarty, G. D. Bacher, R. N. Schwartz, B. A. Wechsler

   Pages 67-171

4. Permanently Fixed Volume Phase Gratings in Ferroelectrics

   • Anthony S. Kewitsch, Amnon Yariv, Mordechai Segev

   Pages 173-219

5. Photorefractive Spatial Solitons

   • Mordechai Segev, Bruno Crosignani, Gregory Salamo, Galen Duree, Paolo Di Porto, Amnon Yariv

   Pages 221-263

6. Photorefractive Polymers

   • S. M. Silence, D. M. Burland, W. E. Moerner

   Pages 265-309

7. Near-Resonant Photorefractive Effects in Bulk Semiconductors

   • James E. Millerd, Elsa M. Garmire, Afshin Partovi

   Pages 311-372

8. Photorefractive Quantum Wells and Thin Films

   • D. D. Nolte, M. R. Melloch

   Pages 373-451

9. Photorefractive Fibers

   • Lambertus Hesselink

   Pages 453-485

10. Back Matter

    Pages 487-489

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The photorefractive effect is now firmly established as one of the highest-sensitivity nonlinear optical effects, making it an attractive choice for use in many optical holographic processing applications. As with all technologies based on advanced materials, the rate of progress in the development of photorefractive applications has been principally limited by the rate at which breakthroughs in materials science have supplied better photorefractive materials. The last ten years have seen an upsurge of interest in photorefractive applications because of several advances in the synthesis and growth of new and sensitive materials. This book is a collection of many of the most important recent developments in photorefractive effects and materials. The introductory chapter, which provides the necessary tools for understanding a wide variety of photorefractive phenomena, is followed by seven contributed chapters that offer views of the state-of-the-art in several different material systems. The second chapter represents the most detailed study to date on the growth and photorefractive performance of BaTi03, one of the most important photorefractive ferroelectrlcs. The third chapter describes the process of permanently fixing holographic gratings in ferroelectrics, important for volumetric data storage with ultra-high data densities. The fourth chapter describes the discovery and theory of photorefractive spatial solitons. Photorefractive polymers are an exciting new class of photo refractive materials, described in the fifth chapter. Polymers have many advantages, primarily related to fabrication, that could promise a breakthrough to the marketplace because of ease and low-cost of manufacturing.

• advanced materials
• ferroelectrics
• material
• materials science
• polymer
• quantum wells
• semiconductor
• semiconductors
• thin films

• Purdue University, USA

  David D. Nolte

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