Diffraction properties of transmission photorefractive volume gratings in a cerium-doped potassium sodium strontium barium niobate crystal

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 5552-5555

  Liang, Bao Lai ^a   Wang, Zhao Qi ^a   Mu, Guo Guang ^a   Guan, Jiu Hong ^a   Cartwright, Colin M ^b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

COUPLED-WAVE THEORY; TWO-WAVE MIXING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0032613433     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005552     Document Type: Article

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