Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications 1: Basic Effects / Edition 1

by Peter Gunter, Jean Pierre Huignard

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387251912
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/28/2005
Series:	Springer Series in Optical Sciences , #113
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Light-Induced Dynamic Gratings And Photorefraction.- Fundamentals of Photorefractive Phenomena.- Space-Charge Driven Holograms in Anisotropic Media.- Space-Charge Wave Effects in Photorefractive Materials Feedback Controlled Photorefractive Beam Coupling.- Band-to-Band Photorefraction.- Two-Step Recording in Photorefractive Crystals.-Spatio-Temporal Instabilities and Self-Organization.- Photorefractive Waveguides.- Photorefractive Solitons.- Thermal Fixing of Photoinduced Gratings.- Electrical Fixing of Photoinduced Gratings.