Nanoparticle doped hybrid photorefractives
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
InventorsGary Cook, Dean R. Evans, Anatoly Gluschenko, Victor Yu Reshetnyak
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Abstract
The present invention provides a photorefractive hybrid cell including a window and a gain media disposed adjacent the window. The gain media includes nanoparticles therein. The window includes a material that forms a space-charge field. The gain media includes a material having refractive index properties that depend on an electric field. The nanoparticles include a material which responds orientationally to the presence of an electric or a magnetic field.
Claims8
A photorefractive hybrid cell comprising a window and a gain media disposed adjacent the window, the gain media having nanoparticles therein,
- wherein the nanoparticles include a material which dynamically reorients in the presence of an electric or magnetic field.
A photorefractive hybrid cell comprising first and second windows and a gain media disposed between the first and second windows, wherein the gain media is doped with nanoparticles, and
- wherein the nanoparticles include a material which dynamically reorients in the presence of an electric or magnetic field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.