Va. Bedarev et Sl. Gnatchenko, THE KINETICS OF PHOTOINDUCED LINEAR BIREF RINGENCE IN MANGANESE-GERMANIUM GARNETS, Fizika nizkih temperatur, 20(2), 1994, pp. 124-130
The processes of induction and relaxation of photoinduced linear biref
ringence in tetragonal Ca3Mn2Ge3O12 and cubic Cd3Mn2Ge3O12 manganese-g
ermanium garnets are studied. The time dependencies of photoinduced bi
refringence DELTAn(t) measured at induction and relaxation are shown t
o be of nonexponential character. They are. described by the exp [-(t/
tau)beta] time dependence taking into account the dispersion of charac
teristic times tau of the processes under consideration.