Abstract
Optical real-time image processing by spatial light modulators (SLM’s) that utilize photorefractive crystals has attracted much attention /1/. The two-wave mixing SLM is based on the selective spatial erasure of the uniform phase volume hologram created by the two plane coherent beams using an incoherent image bearing beam resulting in an additional spatial modulation of the refractive index distribution (commonly with a greater spatial period then the grating period of the hologram). The parameters of these Bragg-type SLM’s are strongly determined by the diffraction properties of the nonuniform volume gratings and are analyzed here by means of the two-wave mixing coupled-wave formalism in it’s two-dimensional description /2/.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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