Note: Front Cover -- Photorefractive Materials -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Sponsors -- Part I: Insulating Materials: Growth and Characterization -- Chapter 1. Optically induced charge transfer paths between defects in BaTiO3 containing rhodium -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method and experimental details -- 3. Results and their interpretation -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Chapter 2. Dual wavelength characterisation of shallow traps in 'blue' BaTiO3 -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework -- 3. Comparison between the numerical model and experiments -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3. Observation and interpretation of photocurrents in KTaO3 : Li single crystals -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental conditions and results -- 3. Explanation of the photoconductivity and electronic impurity structure calculation -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. Growth of SBN single crystals by Stepanov technique for photorefractive applications -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Crystal growth -- 3. Stepanov technique -- comparison with Czochralski method -- 4. Crystal characterization -- 5. Photorefractive properties -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5. Ion-beam/channeling characterization of LiNbO3: interaction between impurity sites -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Summary of ion-beam results on impurity location -- 3. Interaction between Mg and Hf impurity sites -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6. Elastic and piezoelectric constants of Bi12TiO20 crystals -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 7. Local measurement system for optical and electro-optic characterization and homogeneity analysis of photorefractive sillenite crystals -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measurement methodologies -- 3. Experimental set-up -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusion. , Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 8. Shallow traps in doped SBN crystals -- Abstract -- 1. Theoretical introduction -- 2. Fanning brightness and passive ring mirrorr eflectivity -- 3. Four-wave mixing dynamics for a signal of varying in time spatial structure -- 4. Quark decay of gratings -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 9. P-doping growth of photorefractive Bi12TiO20 single crystals -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Single crystal growth experiments -- 3. Crystal habit of P-doped BTO -- 4. Optical properties of P-doped BTO -- 5. Synthesis of Bi12PO20-* (BPO) -- 6. Summary -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 10. Influence of initial conditions on the optical and electrical characterisation of sillenite-type crystals -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental results -- 3. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II: Bulk Materials for the Infrared -- Chapter 11. Optical and EPR properties of V and Ti ions in CdTe -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. EPR of CdTe: V -- 3. Optical data of CdTe:V -- 4. EPR of CdTe:Ti -- 5. Optical data of CdTe:Ti -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12. Optically detected magnetic resonance investigations on titanium and vanadium ions in CdTe -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Samples and experimental -- 3. Experimental results -- 4. Summary -- References -- Chapter 13. Characterization of Ti and V doped CdTe by time dependent charge measurement (TDCM) and photoinduced current transient spectroscopy (PICTS) -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental details -- 3. Discussion of the experimental results -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14. Behaviour of hole and electron dominated photoretractive CdTe: V crystals under external continuous or periodic electric field -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental details. , 3. Photorefractive characteristics -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 15. Observation of the photorefractive effect in vanadium-doped CdMnTe -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 16. Photorefractive effect in (001 )-cut GaAs at short pulse excitation -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Samples and techniques -- 3. Carrier and space charge field dynamics -- 4. Experimental data -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 17. Comparative study of CdTe and GaAs photorefractive performances from 1 µm to 1.55 µm -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental set-up and samples -- 3. Experimental results in CdTe -- 4. Experimental results in GaAs -- 5. Comparison between CdTe and GaAs -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18. Infrared holographic recording in LiNbO3:Fe and LiNbO3:Cu -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental methods -- 3. Experimental results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 19. Crystal growth and characterization of CdTe doped with transition metal elements -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Crystal growth -- 3. Chemical analysis -- 4. Crystallographic properties -- 5. Mechanical properties -- 6. Optical properties of V-doped crystals -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 20. Characterization and identification of the deep levels in V doped CdTe and their relationship with the photorefractive properties -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental details -- 3. Results and discussions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 21. On the mobility-lifetime product in GaAs determined byphotorefractive measurements -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 22. Photorefractive effect in GaAs at low temperature:influence of the metastable state of the EL2 defect -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction. , 2. Set-up and sample -- 3. Experimental results -- 4. The EL2 defect and its metastable state -- 5. Theoretical background -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 23. Picosecond transient gratings in GaAs: experiments and modelling -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental details -- 3. Grating type at high photonic excitation -- 4. Gratings kinetics -- 5. Optical erasure of gratings -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 24. Effective trap concentration in photo refractive CdTe: V and ZnCdTe : V crystals -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Crystal growth -- 3. Experimental results -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 25. Density of states in the gap of CdTe : V deduced from the modulated photocurrent technique -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiments -- 3. Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part III: Photorefractive Characterization -- Chapter 26. The photorefractive effect for neutron and synchrotron radiation -- Abstract -- 1. The photorefractive effect - an introduction -- 2. Basic considerations on the electro-optic effect -- 3. Neutron electro-optics -- 4. Other photorefractive mechanisms relevant to particle radiation -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 27. Temperature dependence of photorefractive properties of Cr-doped potassium sodium strontium barium niobate -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical treatment -- 3. Experiment -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 28. Photorefractive effects in LiNbO3: Fe,Me at high light intensities -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 29. Time evolution of photorefractive fixing processes in LiNbO3 -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental details -- 3. Results -- 4. Temperature dependence -- 5. "Short-waiting" versus "long-waiting" fixing kinetics. , Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 30. Photorefractive effect in the Fourier plane -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Whole Beam Method -- 3. Nonlinearity of the photorefractive response -- 4. Index variation -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 31. Picosecond laser pulse induced effects in bismuth-tellurite, Bi2TeO5 -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental techniques and results -- 3. Discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 32. Effect of light phase-shifts on photorefractive kinetics:linear regime -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Results -- References -- Chapter 33. Temporal behaviour of the phase conjugate wave obtained by means of a BaTiO3 crystal in a CAT configuration -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental set-up and relevant results -- 3. Discussion of the experimental results -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgemen -- References -- Chapter 34. Influence of different impurities on light-induced scattering in doped LiNbO3 crystals -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 35. Laser-induced transient gratings in LiNbO3:Fe -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental methods -- 3. Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 36. Influence of the ac field frequency on the photorefractive response in Bi12SiO20 -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 37. Numerical simulation of the time evolution of photorefractive phase conjugate beams: Multigrating operation -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Numerical method -- 3. Results -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part IV: Quantum Wells and New Materials -- Chapter 38. Photorefractive multiple quantum well materials and applications to signal processing -- Abstract -- References. , Chapter 39. Room temperature photorefractive effect in CdTe/CdZnTe multi quantum wells.