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Holograms, or gratings, in photorefractive crystals have been widely investigated ever since CHEN, LAMACCHIA and FRAZER [1] performed their experiments in 1968. Besides, holography proper, a host of new devices have been developed of which other lecturers will speak. My aim is here rather limited. I wish to discuss the phenomena which occur when a photorefractive crystal is illuminated by two symmetrically incident beams as shown schematically in Fig. 1. Note that a d.c. voltage may also be applied across the crystal.
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Solymar, L. (1987). Theory of Volume Hologram Formation in Photorefractive Crystals. In: Günter, P. (eds) Electro-optic and Photorefractive Materials. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71907-3_18
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