Photorefractive Organic Materials and Applications [Paperback]

This book provides comprehensive, state-of-the art coverage of photorefractive organic compounds, a class of material with the ability to change their index of refraction upon illumination. The change is both dynamic and reversible. Dynamic because no external processing is required for the index modulation to be revealed, and reversible because the index change can be modified or suppressed by altering the illumination pattern. These properties make photorefractive materials very attractive candidates for many applications such as image restoration, correlation, beam conjugation, non-destructive testing, data storage, imaging through scattering media, holographic imaging and display. The field of photorefractive organic material is also closely related to organic photovoltaic and light emitting diode (OLED), which makes new discoveries in one field applicable to others.Chapter 1: Introduction to the Photorefractive Effect in Polymers (Pierre-Alexander Blanche, Brittany Lynn, University of Arizona).- Chapter 2: Charge Transport and Photogeneration in Organic Semiconductors: Photorefractives and Beyond (Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Georgia Tech).- Chapter 3: Photorefractive Response: An Approach from the Photoconductive Properties Naoto Tsutsumi and Kenji Kinashi (Kyoto Institute of Technology).- Chapter 4: Photorefractive Properties of Polymer Composites Based on Carbon Nanotubes (A.V. Vannikov and A.D. Grishina, Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences).- Chapter 5: Photorefractive Smectic Mesophases (Roberto Termine, CNR-Nanotec, UOS di Cosenza-LICRYL, Attilio Golemme, Universita della Calabria).- Chapter 6: Inorganic-organic Photorefractive Hybrids (Dean R. Evans, Gary Cook, Victor Yu, Carl M. Liebig, Sergey A. Basun, and Partha P. Banerjee (Air Force Research Laboratory).- Chapter 7: Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Polymers: Modeling and Selected Applications (P.P. Banerjee, University of Dayton, D.R.l£"