Introduction to Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics Book

	General Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Electromagnetic Waves in Crystals	6
1.1	Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Energy	6
1.2	Wave Equations and Monochromatic Plane Waves	8
1.3	Wave Propagation in Anisotropic Media	11
1.4	Electro-Optic Effects	21
1.5	Optical Activity	34
Ch. 2	Electromagnetic Propagation in Periodic Media	42
2.1	Periodic Media	42
2.2	Coupled Mode Theory	46
2.3	Raman-Nath Diffraction	61
2.4	Bragg Diffraction in Anisotropic Media	65
2.5	Multiple Gratings and Finite Gratings	68
2.6	Coupled Mode Theory for Polarized Waves	74
2.7	Method of Grating Integral	76
Ch. 3	Photorefractive Effects	82
3.1	Band Transport Model	82
3.2	Space-Charge Field	89
3.3	Photorefractive Volume Gratings	94
3.4	Speed of Grating Formation	99
3.5	Moving Gratings	103
3.6	Transient Solutions of Space-Charge Fields	105
3.7	Photovoltaic Effect	111
Ch. 4	Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Media	118
4.1	Degenerate Two-Wave Mixing	118
4.2	Nondegenerate Two-Wave Mixing	134
4.3	Anisotropic Two-Wave Mixing	137
4.4	Two-Wave Mixing in Cubic Crystals	140
4.5	Optical Four-Wave Mixing	150
4.6	Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing	166
4.7	TWM Approximation	167
4.8	Method of Grating Integral for Four-Wave Mixing	172
Ch. 5	Photorefractive Resonators	183
5.1	Unidirectional Ring Resonators	183
5.2	Linear Resonators	190
5.3	Bidirectional Oscillation in Ring Resonators	197
Ch. 6	Photorefractive Phase Conjugators	208
6.2	Phase Conjugation by Four-Wave Mixing	211
6.3	Self-Pumped Phase Conjugators (SPPC)	215
6.4	Mutually Pumped Phase Conjugators (MPPC)	227
6.5	Polarization-Preserving Phase Conjugators (PPPC)	240
Ch. 7	Diffraction Properties of Gratings in Photorefractive Media	249
7.1	Diffraction Properties of Photorefractive Gratings	249
7.2	Fixed Gratings	261
7.3	Reciprocity in Photorefractive Wave Mixing	278
Ch. 8	Volume Holograms and Planar Holograms	287
8.1	Gratings and Holograms	287
8.2	K-Space Degeneracy	292
8.3	Storage Capacity	295
8.4	Fanning Holograms and Conical Diffractions	301
Ch. 9	Phase Conjugate Interferometry	309
9.2	Phase Conjugate Fabry-Perot Interferometers	311
9.3	Phase Conjugate Michelson Interferometer	313
9.4	Phase Conjugate Sagnac Interferometer	314
9.5	Mach-Zehnder Holographic Interferometer	316
Ch. 10	Optical Computing	320
10.1	Fourier Optics with Photorefractive Holograms	320
10.2	Parallel Image Subtraction	325
10.3	Optical Interconnection	330
10.4	Optical Neural Networks	335
10.5	Optical Implementation	342
Ch. 11	Other Applications	354
11.1	Image Amplification	354
11.2	Spatial Amplification	357
11.3	Laser Beam Cleanup	360
11.4	Photorefractive Spatial Light Modulators	361
11.5	Photoreactive Time Integrators	365
11.6	Nonreciprocal Optical Transmission	367
Ch. 12	Higher Order Photo-Induced Gratings	377
12.2	Three-Wave Mixing in Periodic x[superscript (2)]-Media	378
12.3	x[superscript (2)] Holography	386
	Appendix A. Convergence Proof of Perceptron	392
	Appendix B. Storage Capacity of Associative Memory	394
	Appendix C. Useful Mathematical Formulae	396
	Appendix D. Useful Integrals	397
	Author Index	399
	Subject Index	403