The Physics and Applications of Photorefractive Materials

by Laszlo Solymar, A. Grunnet-Jepsen, Webb Solymar

Photorefractive materials combine photoconductive and electro-optic properties. Nearly 2000 papers have been written about the subject in the last twenty years, and physicists and engineers are interested in the great variety of potential applications. This book summarizes all the advances in this field in a manner that provides both a good introduction for beginning students and a detailed account for more experienced researchers.

504 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 1996

About the author

Laszlo Solymar is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. He graduated from the Technical University of Budapest in 1952 and received the equivalent of a Ph.D in 1956 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1956 he settled in England where he worked first in industry and later at the University of Oxford. He did research on antennas, microwaves, superconductors, holographic gratings, photorefractive materials, and metamaterials. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Paris, Copenhagen, Osnabrück, Berlin, Madrid and Budapest. He published 8 books and over 250 papers. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1995. He received the Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1992.