Nonvolatile photorefractive holograms in LiNbO3:Cu:Ce crystals

Y Liu, L Liu, C Zhou, L Xu - Optics Letters, 2000 - opg.optica.org
We report experimental and theoretical studies of nonvolatile photorefractive holographic
recording in LiNbO_3: Cu: Ce crystals with two illumination schemes:?(1) UV light for …

Avoiding hologram bending in photorefractive crystals

AA Freschi, K Buse, PM Garcia, I Rasnik, J Frejlich - Optics letters, 1996 - opg.optica.org
Dynamic coupled-wave theory predicts the bending of recorded hologram phase planes in
most photorefractive crystals. Bent holograms occur in LiNbO_3 and other photovoltaic …

Hologram stabilization in photorefractive crystals

HC Kulich, E Kratzig, RA Rupp - Nonlinear Optical Materials, 1989 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Several methods are investigated to avoid undesired erasure during read-out of volume
phase holograms stored in photorefractive crystals. We present results on thermal fixing and …

Experimental and theoretical study of non-volatile photorefractive holograms in doubly doped LiNbO3: Fe: Cu

L Ren, L Liu, D Liu, C Zhou, G Li - Optical Materials, 2003 - Elsevier
We report the bleaching properties of iron and copper co-doped lithium niobate crystals that
are candidates for non-volatile holographic storage. In experiment, we propose a three-step …

Development of thermally fixed photorefractive holograms without light

I Nee, M Müller, K Buse - Applied Physics B, 2001 - Springer
Holographic gratings are recorded and thermally fixed in iron-doped photorefractive lithium-
niobate crystals. A spatially modulated concentration of filled and empty electron traps (Fe …

Photochromic effect and holographic recording in doubly doped LiNbO [sub] 3 [/sub] crystals

P Mantashyan - International Conference on Laser Physics …, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photochromic effect of lithium nioabate crystal doubly doped with Fe and Cu (LN: Fe: Cu)
was investigated for 532 nm wavelength illumination with the aim of nonvolatile holographic …

Crystal diffraction grating in LiNbO3: Fe derived from interferometric volume holography

R Ince, H Yükselici, AT Ince - Optics and lasers in engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
A 90° two-beam coupling configuration was used to store an image of an extended object in
a 0.032% wt iron-doped LiNbO3 crystal. A volume hologram was thus generated, via the …

Enhancement of non-volatile recording by an external field in doubly doped lithium niobate

R Fujimura, S Ashihara, O Matoba… - … Effects, Materials, and …, 2001 - opg.optica.org
We propose a novel technique to enhance a non-volatile photorefractive grating in a two-
color holographic recording. Resultant diffraction efficiency is increased by an applied …

Stabilized photorefractive modulation recording beyond 100% diffraction efficiency in LiNbO3:Fe crystals

AA Freschi, J Frejlich - JOSA B, 1994 - opg.optica.org
A small photochromic grating is selectively and continuously detected from a much larger
photorefractive modulation in Fe-doped LiNbO3 crystals in a two-wave mixing experiment …

Temperature dependence of absorption in photorefractive iron-doped lithium niobate crystals

G Panotopoulos, M Luennemann, K Buse… - Journal of applied …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
We present experimental data showing a significant dependence of light absorption on
temperature in photorefractive LiNbO 3: Fe crystals. The results are successfully explained …