This is the first volume of a set of three within the Springer Series in Optical Sciences, and is
devoted to photorefractive effects, photorefractive materials, and their applications. Since the …

Photorefractive materials combine photoconductive and electro-optic properties: light affects
their electrical conductivity; their optical properties (refractive index, etc.) are affected by …

The application of evanescent photovoltaic (PV) fields, generated by visible illumination of
Fe: LiNbO 3 substrates, for parallel massive trapping and manipulation of micro-and nano …

A simple method to trap and manipulate metallic micro/nano-particles on the surface of
photorefractive crystals is proposed. After inducing inhomogeneous charge density and …

The operation of photovoltaic (PV) tweezers, using the evanescent light-induced PV fields to
trap and pattern nano-and micro-meter particles on a LiNbO_3 crystal surface, is discussed …

Photovoltaic tweezers are a promising tool to place and move particles on the surface of a
photovoltaic material in a controlled way. To exploit this new technique it is necessary to …

The role of light modulation m and particle size on the morphology and spatial resolution of
nano-particle patterns obtained by photovoltaic tweezers on Fe: LiNbO 3 has been …

Novel experiments and data analysis on the emergent use of evanescent photovoltaic fields
generated by visible illumination of Fe: LiNbO 3 for trapping, patterning and massif …

A numerical approach has been developed for simulating the recording and erasure kinetics
in photorefractive materials for high modulation of the light-intensity pattern. The recording …

In this chapter, the standard model accounting for the photorefractive nonlinearity in a
material is presented. The mathematical formalism of the rate equations has been …