{"title":"The Anomalous Photovoltaic Effect in Ferro and Piezoelectric Semiconductors and its Application for Optical Storage by Holography","authors":"V. Fridkin","doi":"10.11370/ISJEPJ.18.54","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The effect of nonequilibrium conductivity on the birefringence of ferro and piezoelectric semiconductors is referred to as photorefractive effect (PR effect) in the literaturel'2) and has been widely used for recording volume holograms3). In practice, the PR effect consists in the following. As a result of local illumination of a ferroelectric or piezoelectric crystal with an intense transient light (focused laser beam) a reversible change in birefringence occcrs in the crystal volume inside the light beam. The extent of this change may be as great as 10-4-l0-3 for some pyroelectrics (LiNb03, LiTa03) and the storage time of the effect varies over a very wide range, from milliseconds for BaTi03 to months for LiNb03. Hologram recording is accomplished by means of volume modulation An corresponding to that of the recording beams. The recording resolution is extremely high 102104lines/mm, which allows to reach the theoretical limits of three-dimensional storage density (1012bits/cm3). On the contrary to the photographic layers the major advantage of this method of optical storage is the parallel processing, which includes write-in, read-out and","PeriodicalId":114212,"journal":{"name":"DENSHI SHASHIN GAKKAISHI","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1980-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"DENSHI SHASHIN GAKKAISHI","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.11370/ISJEPJ.18.54","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The effect of nonequilibrium conductivity on the birefringence of ferro and piezoelectric semiconductors is referred to as photorefractive effect (PR effect) in the literaturel'2) and has been widely used for recording volume holograms3). In practice, the PR effect consists in the following. As a result of local illumination of a ferroelectric or piezoelectric crystal with an intense transient light (focused laser beam) a reversible change in birefringence occcrs in the crystal volume inside the light beam. The extent of this change may be as great as 10-4-l0-3 for some pyroelectrics (LiNb03, LiTa03) and the storage time of the effect varies over a very wide range, from milliseconds for BaTi03 to months for LiNb03. Hologram recording is accomplished by means of volume modulation An corresponding to that of the recording beams. The recording resolution is extremely high 102104lines/mm, which allows to reach the theoretical limits of three-dimensional storage density (1012bits/cm3). On the contrary to the photographic layers the major advantage of this method of optical storage is the parallel processing, which includes write-in, read-out and