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The Alabama A & M University Department of Physics Optics and Information Processing

One-, two-, and three-beam optical complexity effects in photorefractive materials

H. J. Caulfield, N. V. Kukhtarev, T. Kukhtareva, M. P. Schamschula, and P. Banarjee

Proc. SPIE 2824, 14-21 (1996)

Abstract

Collective self-organization effects and chaos are commonly observed in optics. We describe examples in a particular kind of nonlinear optical material: photorefractive crystals. In particular, we show different effects that arise when photorefractive crystals are illuminated by one laser beam, two laser beams, and three laser beams.