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

SG Odoulov, MS Soskin - … Materials and Their Applications II: Survey of …, 2008 - Springer
Aa optical amplifier is a device where the coherent light beam intensity at the output exceeds
that at the input. A quantum amplifier generally contains on active medium where a …

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 …

Selective two-wave mixing in photorefractive crystals

J Frejlich, AA Kamshilin, PM Garcia - Optics letters, 1992 - opg.optica.org
A new technique that permits the selective steady-state continuous detection of phase
(photorefractive) or amplitude (photochromic) effects in two-wave mixing experiments is …

Optical processing using wave mixing in photorefractive crystals

JP Huignard, P Günter - Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications II …, 2008 - Springer
The mechanism of the photorefractive grating recording and erasure in electrooptic crystals
is discussed in detail in TAP61. We will thus restrict this section to the presentation of the …

Bragg-shift of holographic gratings in photorefractive Fe: LiNbO3 crystals

S Tao, ZH Song, DR Selviah - Optics communications, 1994 - Elsevier
In order to obtain the maximum diffraction efficiency, holograms recorded in a
photorefractive crystal must be replayed by a readout beam incident at the correct angle …

Parametric generation of a spatial subharmonic grating in photorefractive crystals: theory

OP Nestiorkin, YP Shershakov - JOSA B, 1993 - opg.optica.org
The instability of a spatial subharmonic grating during photorefractive hologram recording is
investigated theoretically. It is shown that such instability arises in crystals if the electron drift …

Frequency degenerate oscillation in semilinear photorefractive oscillator with reflection gratings

P Mathey - Applied Physics B, 2005 - Springer
The oscillation intensity of a semilinear photorefractive oscillator with reflection gratings is
calculated for different cavity losses, different pump intensity ratios and different crystal …

Instability of moving gratings in photorefractive crystals

BI Sturman, M Mann, KH Ringhofer - Applied Physics A, 1992 - Springer
It is shown that a moving intensity grating in a photorefractive crystal with a sufficiently large
lifetimemobility product can give rise to an instability against excitation of weakly damped …

Space-charge grating kinetics in photorefractive crystals

NA Gusak - Technical physics, 2006 - Springer
Equations for the grating space-charge density and concentration of free carriers induced by
a standing light wave in an anisotropic photorefractive crystal are derived and solved. The …

Mixed transmission holograms in a Bi12TiO20 photorefractive crystal

VV Shepelevich, AV Makarevich… - Technical Physics Letters, 2014 - Springer
We have experimentally studied the dependence of the diffraction efficiency of nonoblique
transmission holograms in a (110)-cut Bi 12 TiO 20 photorefractive crystal on the orientation …