Title :
Photorefractive nonlinear crystals and their applications to phase conjugation and optical computing
Author_Institution :
Lab. Central de Recherches, Thomson-CSF, Orsay
Abstract :
The author reviews the physical mechanisms of the photorefractive effect in electro-optic crystals and illustrates applications of beam interactions with gain to image amplification, laser beam steering, high reflectivity phase conjugation, self induced optical resonators and optical computing
Keywords :
electro-optical effects; nonlinear optics; optical information processing; optical materials; optical phase conjugation; photorefractive effect; beam interactions; electro-optic crystals; high reflectivity phase conjugation; image amplification; laser beam steering; optical computing; photorefractive effect; self induced optical resonators;
Conference_Titel :
Optoelectronic Materials, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
