Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications II

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Introduction

   • Jean-Pierre Huignard, Peter Günter

   Pages 1-3

3. Amplification, oscillation, and light-induced scattering in photorefractive crystals

   • Serguey G. Odoulov, Marat S. Soskin

   Pages 5-43

4. Photorefractive effects in waveguides

   • E. Van Wood, Paul J. Cressman, Robert L. Holman, Carl M. Verber

   Pages 45-100

5. Wave propagation in photorefractive media

   • Jeffrey O. White, Sze-Keung Kwong, Mark Cronin-Golomb, Baruch Fischer, Amuon Yariv

   Pages 101-150

6. Phase-conjugate mirrors and resonators with photorefractive materials

   • Jack Feinberg, Kenneth R. MacDonald

   Pages 151-203

7. Optical processing using wave mixing in photorefractive crystals

   • Jean-Pierre Huignard, Peter Günter

   Pages 205-273

8. The photorefractive incoherent-to-coherent optical converter

   • Jeffrey W. Yu, Demetri Psaltis, Abdellatif Marrakchi, Armand R. Tanguay, Richard V. Johnson

   Pages 275-324

9. Photorefractive crystals in PRIZ spatial light modulators

   • Mikhail P. Petrov, Anatolii V. Khomenko

   Pages 325-352

10. Back Matter

    Pages 353-367

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This is the second of two volumes that review, for the first time, all major aspects of photorefractive effects and their applications. Photorefractive effects in electro-optic crystals are based on optically induced space-charge fields which ultimately alter the refractive indices by the electro-optic Pockels effect. The fundamental phenomena leading to photoinduced changes of refractive index, the materials requirements and experimental results on a variety of photorefractive materials are discussed and the most recent theoretical models describing these phenomena are presented. Interest in photorefractive materials has increased in recent years mainly because of their potential for nonlinear optical devices and for optical signals processing applications. Most of these applications are reviewed in this volume. The contributions to the two volumes are written by experts on each topic and are intended for scientists and engineers active in the field and for researchers and graduate students entering the field. Over 300 references to original papers on photorefractive and associated phenomena are cited. Volume 1 appeared as Volume 61 of Topics in Applied Physics.

• applied physics
• crystal
• Modulator
• optical devices
• scattering

• Institut für Quantenelektronik, ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland

  Peter Günter

• THOMSON-CSF, Laboratoire Central de Recherches, Orsay Cedex, France

  Jean-Pierre Huignard

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