Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications 1

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • P. Günter, J. P. Huignard

   Pages 1-5

3. Light-Induced Dynamic Gratings and Photorefraction

   • Hans Joachim Eichler, Andreas Hermerschmidt

   Pages 7-42

4. Fundamentals of Photorefractive Phenomena

   • F. Agulló-López, G. F. Calvo, M. Carrascosa

   Pages 43-82

5. Space-Charge Driven Holograms in Anisotropic Media

   • Germano Montemezzani, Marko Zgonik

   Pages 83-118

6. Space-Charge Wave Effects in Photorefractive Materials

   • Boris I. Sturman

   Pages 119-162

7. Feedback-Controlled Photorefractive Beam Coupling

   • B. I. Sturman, E. V. Podivilov, M. V. Gorkunov, S. G. Odoulov

   Pages 163-201

8. Band-to-Band Photorefraction

   • Germano Montemezzani, Philipp Dittrich, Peter Günter

   Pages 203-230

9. Two-Step Recording in Photorefractive Crystals

   • Eckhard Krätzig, Karsten Buse

   Pages 231-251

10. Spatio-Temporal Instabilities and Self-Organization

    • Cornelia Denz, Philip Jander

    Pages 253-287

11. Photorefractive Waveguides

    • Detlef Kip, Monika Wesner

    Pages 289-315

12. Photorefractive Solitons

    • E. DelRe, M. Segev, D. Christodoulides, B. Crosignani, G. Salamo

    Pages 317-367

13. Thermal Fixing of Photoinduced Gratings

    • M. Carrascosa, L. Arizmendi, J. M. Cabrera

    Pages 369-396

14. Electrical Fixing of Photoinduced Gratings

    • R. S. Cudney, J. Fousek

    Pages 397-416

15. Back Matter

    Pages 417-423

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This is the first volume of a set of three within the Springer Series in Optical Sciences, and is devoted to photorefractive effects, photorefractive materials, and their applications. Since the publication of our first two Springer books on Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications (Topics in Applied Physics, Vols. 61 and 62) almost 20 years ago, a lot of research has been done in this area. New and often expected effects have been discovered, theoretical models developed, known effects finally explained, and novel applications proposed. We believe that the field has now reached a high level of maturity, even if research continues in all areas mentioned above and with new discoveries arriving quite regularly. We therefore have decided to invite some of the top experts in the field to put together the state of the art in their respective fields. This after we had been encouraged to do so for more than ten years by the publisher, due to the fact that the former volumes were long out of print.

• Dynamic Holography
• Gunter
• Günter
• Photorefractive Effects
• electro-optics
• nonlinear optics
• semiconductor

• Institute of Quantum Electronics Nonlinear Optics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

  Peter Günter

• Thales Research and Technology France, Palaiseau Cedex, France

  Jean-Pierre Huignard

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