EXACT SOLUTION OF THE BRAGG-DIFFRACTION PROBLEM IN SILLENITES

Authors
STURMAN BI WEBB DJ KOWARSCHIK R SHAMONINA E RINGHOFER KH
Citation
Bi. Sturman et al., EXACT SOLUTION OF THE BRAGG-DIFFRACTION PROBLEM IN SILLENITES, Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics, 11(9), 1994, pp. 1813-1819
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
07403224
Volume
11
Issue
9
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1813 - 1819
Database
ISI
SICI code
0740-3224(1994)11:9<1813:ESOTBP>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
A method for the exact solution of the Bragg-diffraction problem for a photorefractive grating in sillenite crystals based on Pauli matrices is proposed. For the two main optical configurations explicit analyti cal expressions are found for the diffraction efficiency and the polar ization of the scattered wave. The exact solution is applied to a deta iled analysis of a number of particular cases. For the known limiting cases there is agreement with the published results.