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Photorefractive polymer composites are an unusually sensitive class of photopolymers. Physics of Photorefraction in Polymers describes our current understanding of the physical processes that produce a photorefractive effect in key composite materials. Topics as diverse as charge generation, dispersive charge transport, charge compensation and trapping, molecular diffusion, organic composite structure, and nonlinear optical wave coupling are all developed from a physical perspective. Emphasis is placed on explaining how these physical processes lead to observable properties of the polymers, and the authors discuss various applications, including holographic archiving.
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TF1685_half 9/17/04 10:05 AM Page 1 PHYSICS of PHOTOREFRACTION in POLYMERS © 2005 by CRC Press TF1685_series 10/20/04 12:51 PM Page 1 Advances in Nonlinear Optics A series edited by Anthony F. Garito, University of Pennsylvania, USA François Kajzar, DEIN, CEN de Saclay, France and Allan Boardman, University of Salford, UK ______________________________________________________________ Volume 1 Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials Ch. Bosshard, K. Sutter, Ph. Prêtre, J. Hulliger, M. Flörsheimer, P. Kaatz and P. Günter Volume 2 Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Optical Waveguides Xin-Hua Wang Volume 3 Organic Thin Films for Waveguiding Nonlinear Optics Edited by F Kajzar and J.D. Swalen Volume 4 Poled Polymers and their Applications to SHG and EO Devices Edited by S. Miyata and H. Sasabe Volume 5 Electromagnetic Resonances in Nonlinear Optics M. Nevière, E. Popov, R. Reinisch and G. Vitrant This book is part of a series. The publisher will accept continuation orders which may be cancelled at any time and which provide for automatic billing and shipping of each title in the