New photorefractive effect in graded-gap superlattices

SE Ralph, F Capasso, RJ Malik - Physical review letters, 1989 - APS
A photorefractive effect which results from the spatial separation of electrons and holes in
compositionally graded semiconductors is demonstrated for the first time. Unlike …

Comparison of single-and two-species models of electron–hole transport in photorefractive media

MC Bashaw, TP Ma, RC Barker - JOSA B, 1992 - opg.optica.org
For most regimes descriptions of photorefractive behavior by electron–hole transport with a
single species of impurity levels and by electron–hole transport with two species of impurity …

Introduction, revelation, and evolution of complementary gratings in photorefractive bismuth silicon oxide

MC Bashaw, TP Ma, RC Barker, S Mroczkowski… - Physical Review B, 1990 - APS
Principal and complementary space-charge gratings are formed in photorefractive bismuth
silicon oxide with use of 785-nm light. An electric field is optionally applied in the direction of …

Dynamics of photoexcited carriers and space-charge field by picosecond two-beam excitation in photorefractive semiconductors

YTY Tomita, HIH Ishii - Japanese journal of applied physics, 1994 - iopscience.iop.org
Dynamics of space-charge field formation and its decay, as well as those of photoexcited
electrons and holes, by picosecond two-beam excitation in photorefractive semiconductors …

Non-steady-state photoelectromotive force in bipolar photoconductors with arbitrary level structure

N Korneev, S Mansurova, S Stepanov - JOSA B, 1995 - opg.optica.org
Space-charge grating formation and the non-steady-state photoelectromotive force
(photoEMF) excited by a vibrating interference pattern are analyzed for the general case of a …

Multiline coherent oscillation in photorefractive crystals with two species of movable carriers

A Shumelyuk, S Odoulov, G Brost - Applied Physics B, 1999 - Springer
The coherent oscillation, because of nearly degenerate four-wave mixing in photorefractive
crystals with two types of movable charge carriers, occurs at two spectral lines symmetrically …

An equivalent circuit for spatial variations in photorefractive materials

L Solymar - Optics communications, 1987 - Elsevier
It is shown that the spatial variations of physical quantities like space charge electric field,
ionized donor density modulation and electron density modulation may be characterized by …

Nonlinear photorefractive response at high modulation depths

F Vachss, L Hesselink - JOSA A, 1988 - opg.optica.org
The response of photorefractive materials to sinusoidal intensity patterns of high modulation
depths is considered. It is shown that the induced refractive-index response in this regime is …

Interband photorefractive effect in semiconductors with hot-electron transport at arbitrary modulation depth

M Wichtowski, A Ziółkowski - Optics Communications, 2013 - Elsevier
Hot-electron transport in photorefractive semiconductors strongly affects the recording of
photorefractive grating. However, the theoretical description of this behavior has been …

Grating formation in photorefractive materials at large illumination

LB Au, L Solymar - Optics communications, 1989 - Elsevier
The transients in photorefractive two-wave mixing are investigated under the condition when
the electron generation time is comparable with the dielectric relaxation time. It is shown that …