Photoinduced Charge Dynamics in Photorefractive Semiconductors

VN Astratov, AV Ilinskii, AS Furman - physica status solidi (b), 1988 - Wiley Online Library
Photoinduced charge dynamics in photorefractive semiconductors is studied from both,
theoretical and experimental points of view in the case of an external field screening. This …

Running space charge wave instability in photorefractive crystals

NA Korneev, JJS Mondragon, SI Stepanov - Optics communications, 1997 - Elsevier
It is shown that in materials with a special type of photoconductivity temporal response, the
running space charge wave is generated under uniform illumination when the external …

Transient behavior of the photorefractive space-charge field

P Vaveliuk, B Ruiz, N Bolognini, J Fernandez - Physical Review B, 2000 - APS
The transient behavior of the fundamental amplitude of the photorefractive space-charge
field is derived without restrictions within the band transport model. The two-wave mixing …

Electronic excitation of space charge waves in photorefractive materials

VA Kalinin, L Solymar - Applied physics letters, 1996 - pubs.aip.org
The excitation of a space charge wave in a uniformly illuminated photorefractive crystal by
an applied ac voltage is studied theoretically. A spatial differential equation for the ac …

Effect of applied electric field on the buildup and decay of photorefractive gratings

JM Jonathan, R Hellwarth… - IEEE journal of quantum …, 1986 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have measured the real and imaginary parts of the experimental rate constant of the
buildup and decay of photorefractive charge gratings in cubic crystalline insulating Bi 12 SiO …

Effect of shallow traps on electron–hole competition in semi-insulating photorefractive materials

P Tayebati - JOSA B, 1992 - opg.optica.org
A model of the photorefractive effect is presented that includes a shallow-trap level (hole or
electron trap) as well as a species of deep traps with electron and hole excitation. It is shown …

Space-charge waves in photorefractive crystals and their parametric excitation

BI Sturman, M Mann, J Otten, KH Ringhofer - JOSA B, 1993 - opg.optica.org
It is shown that weakly damped space-charge waves exist in photorefractive crystals with a
sufficiently large lifetime–mobility product. The dispersion law, the damping constant, and …

Approach to space-charge field description in photorefractive crystals

E DelRe, A Ciattoni, B Crosignani, M Tamburrini - JOSA B, 1998 - opg.optica.org
Recent analytical results in the frame of photorefractive spatial-soliton propagation are
exploited to derive a novel scheme for the investigation of space-charge field formation in …

Non-steady-state photoelectromotive force in semiconductor photorefractive crystals biased by dc field

NA Korneev, SS Mansurova, SI Stepanov, TJ Hall… - JOSA B, 1996 - opg.optica.org
A microscopic model of the non-steady-state photoelectromotive force excited by a vibrating
interference pattern in a bipolar photoconductor under an external dc electric field is …

Singular behavior of light-induced space charge in photorefractive media under an ac field

GF Calvo, B Sturman, F Agullo-Lopez, M Carrascosa - Physical Review Letters, 2000 - APS
We show that a photoconductive crystal, placed in a rapidly alternating ac field and exposed
to nonuniform light, exhibits singularities of the induced space charge and discontinuities of …