This chapter presents a discussion of the recording speed in photorefractive materials, the
parameters that influence it under various circumstances of continuous wave and pulsed …

We report on the experimental evidence of the light intensity dependence of the Debye
screening length ls in undoped photorefractive titanosillenite crystals (⁠ Bi 12 TiO 20⁠) by …

We report measurements of response time for the intensity-dependent absorption in a single
BaTiO_3 crystal under conditions in which no photorefractive effect can be observed. The …

Holograms recorded under suitable conditions in photorefractive BaTiO 3 exhibit an unusual
dark build-up. The diffraction efficiency increases by some orders of magnitude after the …

We demonstrate that the negative amplitude gain in a photorefractive two-wave-mixing
experiment under applied electric field measurably reduces the characteristic instability of …

The reading and optical erasure (on and off the Bragg angle) of holograms stored in lithium
niobate and similar materials by the photorefractive effect have been modeled using …

We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of a grating envelope, in both
transmission and reflection geometry, during the erasure process in various readout …

Erase rates for uniformly illuminated refractive-index gratings are derived for a model of
photorefractivity in which two photoactive ions participate as donors and acceptors. The …

We investigate the influence of attenuation on the speed of erasure of photorefractive
gratings by solving the coupled-wave equations in the undepleted pump approximation and …

The thermal and optical stability of photorefractive holograms written in iron-doped LiNbO 3
have been measured over the temperature range from 50 to 165 degrees C. In each case …