title: High-performance photorefractive polymers.
abstract: Photorefractive materials can form "instant" holograms without time-consuming development steps. Their potential applications include image processing, optical data storage, and correction of image distortion, but the cost of crystal growth and preparation has been a primary impediment to commercial application. Polymers, on the other hand, are low in cost and readily fabricated in a variety of forms. Photorefractive polymers were constructed with performance that matched or exceeded the performance of available photorefractive crystals. The largest observed two-beam energy coupling gain coefficient for the polymers was 56 per centimeter.
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authors.lastname: Liphardt
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authors.lastname: Goonesekera
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authors.lastname: Jones
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authors.lastname: Ducharme
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authors.lastname: Zhang