A detailed study of eight systematically chosen Fe: LiNb03 crystals is presented. Correlation between the photorefractive sensitivity and various chemical properties of Fe:LiNb03 is investigated in order to ascertain optimum performance of the crystals in holographic storage and display applications. Concentrations of Fe 2+ and Fe 3+ ions have been determined from optical and EPR spectra, while...

The mode coupling among guided modes in a photorefractive crystal waveguide is investigated. We derive the coupled equations of guided modes in a photorefractive crystal waveguide. Analytical solutions of the coupled equations are obtained for a two-mode photorefractive crystal waveguide. We also numerically analyze the coupled equations of guided modes in a multimode photorefractive crystal fi...

Photorefractive methods have become popular in the measurement of refractive and accommodative states of infants and children owing to their photographic nature and rapid speed of measurement. As in the case of any method that measures the refractive state of the human eye, monochromatic aberrations will reduce the accuracy of the measurement. Monochromatic aberrations cannot be as easily predi...

This thesis deals with control of spatial structures and temporal dynamics in photorefractive nonlinear systems. The systems all utilize a photorefractive crystal as the key component, but produce structures of different spatiotemporal complexity. Four topics are experimentally examined: (1) the transfer of temporal fluctuations in photorefractive twoand three-beam coupling; (2) the spatial mod...

The photorefractive properties of semi-insulating AlGaAs-GaAs multiple quantum wells are described for the transverse Franz-Keldysh geometry with the electric field in the plane of the quantum wells. Combining the strong electroabsorption of quantum-confined excitons with the high resistivity of semi-insulating quantum wells yields large nonlinear optical sensitivities. The photorefractive quan...

The transverse instability of counterpropagating waves in nonlinear media with a photorefractive or Kerr-type nonlinearity is studied. The problem is formulated for a sluggish nonlinear medium that responds much slower than the optical frequency. In this limit, a general dispersion relation, valid for arbitrary longitudinal variation of the optical intensities, is obtained and solved numericall...

We discuss the creation of an array of 9 x 9 photorefractive spatial screening solitons in a strontium barium niobate crystal. We investigate the waveguide properties of each channel with a beam of different wavelength and find that the waveguides guide the probe beam independently. A supplementary beam is used to influence the paths of the array solitons and to effectively combine two channels...

Detection of the tagged or untagged photons in acousto-optic imaging of thick highly scattering media by photorefractive adaptive holography We propose an original adaptive wavefront holographic setup based on the photorefractive effect (PR), to make real-time measurements of acousto-optic signals in thick scattering media, with a high flux collection at high rates for breast tumor detection. W...