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Introduction to Nonlinear Optics in Photorefractive Media

  • Giuseppe Di DomenicoEmail author
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Abstract

In this chapter nonlinear optical beams are introduced and specialized to spatial solitons in photorefractive media. In particular, we present the electro-optic effect, ferroelectricity, relaxor ferroelectrics, the mechanism of photorefraction, and the physics underlying photorefractive solitons.

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  1. 1.School of Electrical EngineeringTel Aviv UniversityTel AvivIsrael

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