Applications of photorefractive crystals
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- review article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Reports on Progress in Physics
- Vol. 57 (1) , 39-116
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/57/1/002
Abstract
The main suggestions in practical applications of dynamic photorefractive holographic recording for interferometry, processing of 2D pictures, operations with laser beams, and holographic memory systems are reviewed. Specific photorefractive techniques underlying these applications, and in particular, methods of continuous and nondestructive hologram reconstruction, nonlinearities in recording mechanisms, and basic limitations due to geometrical factors, Bragg diffraction, and optical noise are considered in detail. The paper is preceded by two introductory sections devoted to fundamentals of dynamic holography and phase conjugation in volume media, and to specific features of recording and reconstruction of the photorefractive holograms.This publication has 262 references indexed in Scilit:
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