Abstract

In paper¹ the effective recording of hologram gratings in photorefractive cryctals by short light pulses was studied experimentally. The self-diffracthion theory of light pulses for the time of Maxwell’s relaxation τ_m which was negligible compared with the pulse duration τ_u was investigated by Kuchtarev and Semenetz². Here we did not take into account the influence of piezoelectric and photoelastic effects that might have a strong influence on hologram recording and restoration³. The results of the analysis of hologram grating pulse recording in photorefractive crystals accounting for piesoelectric and photoelastic effects for τ_u«τ_m.

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