Photovoltaic and Photo-refractive Effects in Noncentrosymmetric Materials

A technical treatment of the photovoltaic effect, one of the causes of photorefraction, which itself is used in holography, beam amplification and correction, wavefront reversals, and other fields. Focuses on the effect in ferro- and piezoelectric crystals. Translated from the Russian. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR