The advances of photorefractive optics have demonstrated many useful and practical
applications, which include the development of photorefractive optic devices for computer …

The photorefractive effect is now firmly established as one of the highest-sensitivity
nonlinear optical effects, making it an attractive choice for use in many optical holographic …

Materials demonstrating a photorefractive effect are principal candidates for numerous
applications, including high‐density optical data storage, optical image processing, phase …

Photorefractive Materials presents an overview of the basic features and properties of
photorefractive materials, covering a wide array of related topics. It provides a coherent …

After a rapid presentation of generally quoted figures of merit of photorefractive materials, we
show that these figures of merit do not allow us to select abest material'. We illustrate this …

Optical information processing techniques offer many advantages for data security
applications. Optics offers many degrees of freedom like phase, spatial frequency, and …

This book describes the processes of optical information recording in photorefractive crystals
and applications of these materials in phase-conjugating devices, holographic …

In this paper we review four photorefractive devices which have been investigated and
further developed in our laboratories. We discuss the fundamental behavior of a …

We consider holographic optical data storage systems implemented with photorefractive
media. Our viewpoint emphasizes the close interaction between materials and device …

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 …