Of interest to both experts and newcomers to the field, this book discusses optical information recording in photorefractive crystals. It includes a rigorous treatment of basic phenomena and an extensive summary of the physical and holographic properties of all currently known photorefractive materials.

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1. The Phenomenon of Photorefraction.- 2. Holography, and Optical Information Processing Systems.- 3. Salient Features of Photorefractive Crystals for Holography.- 4. Formation of an Electric-Field Grating During Holographic Recording in PRCs.- 5. Light Diffraction from Anisotropic Volume Phase Gratings.- 6. Fundamentals of Dynamic Holography.- 7. The Physics of Electro-Optic Spatial Light Modulators.- 8. Spatial Light Modulators.- 9. Applications of Photorefractive Crystals.- Appendix: Photorefractive Crystals.- A10 Semiconductor Photorefractive Crystals.- A 11 Other Photorefractive Crystals and Media.- References.