ALLEVIATION OF IMAGE DISTORTION DUE TO STRIATIONS IN A PHOTOREFRACTIVE MEDIUM BY USING A PHASE-CONJUGATED REFERENCE WAVE

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BASHAW, MC
AHARONI, A
HESSELINK, L
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[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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10.1364/OL.17.001149
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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Growth-induced striations in photorefractive media scatter transmitted light, degrading their performance in holographic applications. We model this phenomenon by considering the striations to be a permanent hologram within a medium and compare it with experimental results in a striated strontium barium niobate crystal. We show that the construction of the phase-conjugate signal beam by a phase conjugate of the transmitted reference beam alleviates the effects of distortions that are due to striations.
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