Image storage display and processing in photosensitive electrooptic crystals: LiNbO3:Fe

Abstract

Photosensitive electrooptic crystals, such as iron-doped lithium niobate crystals, are attractive materials for image storage processing and display applications, since large size crystals with good optical quality are now available, and sensitivity improvement has been achieved by iron doping. Considering the doping level and oxidation state (ratio Fe3+/Fe2+), quite different behaviors for image storage are observed.