Electro-optic and Photorefractive Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Electro-optical Effects and Materials

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Electro-optical Effects in Dielectric Crystals

      • P. Günter

      Pages 2-17

   3. Electrooptic Effects in Crystals Induced by Phase Transitions

      • J. Fousek

      Pages 18-34

   4. Electric Field Dependence of Optical Properties of Quantum Well Structures

      • D. A. B. Miller

      Pages 35-49

   5. Transparent Ferroelectric Ceramics I. Composition, Structure and Requirements for Production

      • A. Krumins, A. Sternberg

      Pages 50-60

   6. Transparent Ferroelectric Ceramics II. Specific Properties and Applications

      • A. Krumins, A. Sternberg

      Pages 61-71

   7. Transparent Ferroelectric Ceramics III. Photorefraction and Formation of Holographic Gratings

      • A. Krumins, A. Sternberg

      Pages 72-77

3. Electro-optical Effects in Liquid Crystals and Biopolymers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. The Chemistry and Physics of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals

      • E. P. Raynes

      Pages 80-89

   3. Electro-optic Effects in Liquid Crystals

      • E. P. Raynes

      Pages 90-98

   4. Electro-optic Devices Using Liquid Crystals

      • E. P. Raynes

      Pages 99-109

   5. Nonlinear Optical and Electro-optical Properties of Biopolymers

      • S. K. Kurtz, S. D. Kozikowski, L. J. Wolfram

      Pages 110-130

4. Electro-optical Devices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Introduction to Integrated Optics

      • E. Voges

      Pages 132-149

   3. Integrated Electro-optic Devices

      • E. Voges

      Pages 150-158

   4. Integrated Optics for Optical Communications

      • E. Voges

      Pages 159-164

   5. Nuclear Techniques for Optical Waveguide Characterization

      • A. Carnera

      Pages 165-178

   6. Optical Waveguides in LiNbO3 Produced by Ti In-diffusion, Ion Exchange and Ion Implantation

      • A. Carnera

      Pages 179-194

   7. Room-Temperature Bulk GaAs: Dominant Nonlinearities, Fast-Recovery Gates, Arrays for Parallel Processing

      • H. M. Gibbs, N. Peyghambarian, Y. H. Lee, M. Warren, A. Chavez-Pirson, S. H. Park et al.

      Pages 195-203

This volume is based on lectures and contributed papers presented at the Eleventh Course of the International School of Materials Science and Tech­ nology that was held in Erice, Sicily, Italy at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture during the period 6-17 July 1986. The subject of the course was "Electro-optic and Photorefractive Materials: Applications in Sig­ nal Processing and Phase Conjugation" . The fields of electro-optics and photorefraction have developed rapidly since the invention of lasers just over twenty-five years ago. The possibil­ of altering the optical properties of a material by electric fields or by ity optical waves is of great importance for both pure science and for practical applications such as optical signal processing, telecommunications and opti­ cal display devices. These effects allow us to manipulate (modulate, deflect) and process a given light wave. Modulation, deflection and processing of light waves by means of the electro-optic effect is of fundamental importance in fiber optic telecommuniC1. tions and sensor systems w here the light signals can be processed prior or subsequent to transmission through the fibers. Thin film electro-optic materials with suitable electrode arrays on· the surface of the wave-guiding structures result in a technology often referred to as inte­ grated optics. In principle, integrated optics devices allow miniaturization and integration of many operations onto a single chip. The photorefractive effect, defined as a photo-induced change of the in­ dices of refraction, was the other topic treated in this course.

• Transmission
• electro-optics
• integrated optics
• laser
• materials science
• optical properties
• optics
• thin films

• Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland

  Peter Günter

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