Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications. Semiconductor Photorefractive Quantum Wells and Their Applications.

Photorefractive Polymers and Their Applications in Photonics

The demand for holographic recording materials has been ever increasing for the past few decades. Photorefractive materials have been studied extensively as candidate recording media. They offer high index modulation with reversible recording that make them very attractive for applications such as threedimensional holographic displays, adaptive optics, optical data storage and medical optics. R...

Photorefractive quantum wells: transverse Franz-Keldysh geometry

The photorefractive properties of semi-insulating AlGaAs-GaAs multiple quantum wells are described for the transverse Franz-Keldysh geometry with the electric field in the plane of the quantum wells. Combining the strong electroabsorption of quantum-confined excitons with the high resistivity of semi-insulating quantum wells yields large nonlinear optical sensitivities. The photorefractive quan...

Magentotactic bacteria and their applications

Magentotactic bacteria are the types of bacteria capable of orientation in an external magnetic field because of the ability to produce structures called magnetosomes. Magnetosomes, nanometer-scale structures, are present in most of the magnetotactice bacteria. They are intracellular organelles composed of magnetic iron mineral crystals individually surrounded by a phospholipid layer. Because o...

Sequential Methods and Their Applications

Adaptive beam combining and interferometry with photorefractive quantum wells

We present a comprehensive study of excitonic electroabsorption and two-wave mixing in photorefractive quantum wells. By combining these two measurements, we are able to determine the internal grating writing efficiency for converting an external spatial light modulation into an internal space-charge field. The internal writing efficiency at a fringe spacing L 5 40 mm is found to be a decreasin...