Spontaneous gratings in light-sensitive AgCl-Ag films formed by a normallyincident circularly polarized focused laser beam

Authors
Ageev, LA Miloslavsky, VK Nahal, A Shpilevoy, Y
Citation
La. Ageev et al., Spontaneous gratings in light-sensitive AgCl-Ag films formed by a normallyincident circularly polarized focused laser beam, OPT COMMUN, 173(1-6), 2000, pp. 285-289
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN journal
00304018 → ACNP
Volume
173
Issue
1-6
Year of publication
2000
Pages
285 - 289
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(20000101)173:1-6<285:SGILAF>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
We found that the action of a normally incident, circularly polarized, focu sed laser beam on the light-sensitive AgCl-Ag film generates a system of sp ontaneous gratings whose wave vectors orientation are subject to hexagonal symmetry. It is shown that two-dimensional Bragg diffraction plays a crucia l role in the formation of this system. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.