Study of non-Bragg orders in dynamic self-diffraction in a photorefractive polymer: Experiment, theory, and applications

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2261-2267

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HOLOGRAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEFRONTS;

DYNAMIC SELF DIFFRACTION; NON BRAGG ORDERS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE POLYMER;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0030258186     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.13.002261     Document Type: Article

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