Non-Bragg orders in dynamic self-diffraction on thick phase gratings in a photorefractive polymer

Optics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 519-521

  Volodin, B L ^a   Kippelen, B ^a   Meerholz, K ^a   Kukhtarev, N V ^a,b   Caulfield, H J ^a,b   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL RECORDING; ORGANIC POLYMERS; WAVEFRONTS;

BRAGG DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; DYNAMIC SELF DIFFRACTION THEORY; NON BRAGG DIFFRACTION; PHASE DOUBLING TRANSFORMATION; PHOTO REFRACTIVE POLYMERS; POLARITY; THICK HOLOGRAPHIC PHASE GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0030127421     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.21.000519     Document Type: Article

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