Download or read book Photovoltaic and Photo-refractive Effects in Noncentrosymmetric Materials written by Boris I. Sturman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1992-05-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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