Spatial and temporal characteristics of electrically fixed holograms in photorefractive strontium-barium niobate
Author(s) -
Sergei S. Orlov,
Demetri Psaltis,
Ratnakar R. Neurgaonkar
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.111026
Subject(s) - strontium barium niobate , photorefractive effect , holography , diffraction efficiency , grating , polarization (electrochemistry) , optics , materials science , diffraction , optoelectronics , ferroelectricity , physics , dielectric , chemistry
We report measurements of the holographic diffraction efficiency (HDE) of single photorefractive gratings fixed by an externally applied voltage pulse in Sr0.75Ba0.25Nb2O6. The polarization grating HDE and decay rate are strongly dependent on the grating spacing and also depend on the intensity of the light beams during the recording and erasing/reconstruction process. Knowledge of the dependence of the fixing process on spatial frequency may be useful for the creation of physical models of local polarization switching in ferroelectrics.
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