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The mechanism of information recording determines such characteristics of the photorefractive crystals as diffraction efficiency, information capacity, spatial-frequency bandwidth, sensitivity, speed of operation, dynamic range, and storage time. The parameters listed are essential for the description of the media in terms of information theory, but they do not yield adequate estimates for other important features such as reliability, thermal stability, ease of fabrication, and the cost. In this chapter we shall be concerned with properties of photorefractive media that govern the application in coherent-optical information processing.
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Petrov, M.P., Stepanov, S.I., Khomenko, A.V. (1991). Salient Features of Photorefractive Crystals for Holography. In: Photorefractive Crystals in Coherent Optical Systems. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47056-4_3
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