TRAPPING THE GRATING ENVELOPE IN BULK PHOTOREFRACTIVE MEDIA

被引:7
作者
JEGANATHAN, M
BASHAW, MC
HESSELINK, L
机构
[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-4035
关键词
Crystals - Diffraction gratings - Mathematical models - Optical data storage;
D O I
10.1364/OL.19.001415
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We introduce the concept of traveling grating envelopes to study the erasure dynamics in bulk photorefractive media. This new technique provides considerable physical insight into the observed photorefractive transients. We propose and demonstrate experimentally, in a Ce-doped SBN:60 crystal, two novel ways of extending the grating lifetime by trapping the grating envelope inside the medium. The incident beam ratio and the readout geometry have the largest effect on how long the grating can be read out.
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页码:1415 / 1417
页数:3
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