Abstract

The behavior of holographic recording and read out in photorefractive media under steady-state excitation has been extensively investigated in the last decade. Recent applications of photorefractive materials in time-dependent image processing however have utilized both time-varying images and the alteration of photorefractive response through the application of time-varying electric fields. Thus far, however, analyses of the photorefractive effect in these input conditions have been restricted to the quasi-steady-state limit and are thus only strictly valid for sufficiently low excitation frequencies.

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