7:00 - 8:30 am

Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 am

Materials

• Recent advances in photorefractive quantum wells (Invited)
  

  D. D. Nolte

  
  
• Plasma gratings: A new local photorefractive effect based on the properties of bistable defects
  

  R. A. Linke, R. L. MacDonald, T. Thio, D. J. Chadi and M. Mizuta

  
  
• A photorefractive guest-host polymer with high efficiency
  

  B. Kippelen, K. Meerholz, B. L. Volodin, Sandalphon and N. Peyghambarian

  
  

9:30 - 9:45 am

Coffee Break

9:45 - 10:45 am

Funny Patterns

• High resolution x-ray diffraction imaging of anti-parallel ferroelectric domains in barium titanate and strontium barium niobate

  G. Forgarty, B. Steiner, M. Cronin-Golomb, U. Laor, R. Uhrin and J. Martin

  
  
• Bidirectional oscillation in a photorefractive ring resonator
  

  Z. Chen, D. McGee and N. B. Abraham

  
  
• Photorefractive scattering in bulk periodically poled lithium niobate

  V. Pruneri, P. G. Kazansky, J. Webjörn, P. St. J. Russell and D. C. Hanna

  
  
• Hexagonal pattern formation in BaTiO3 with mirror feedback

  Tokuyuki Honda and Hirokazu Matsumoto

  
  

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

POSTER Session A

12:15 - 4:00 pm

Lunch and Free Time

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Subharmonics

• Observation of photorefractive parametric oscillations in Bi12SiO20

  Henrik C. Pedersen and Per Michael Johansen

  
  
• Subharmonics in BSO in the absence of beam coupling

  T. E. McClelland, D. J. Webb, B. I. Sturman, E. Shamonina and K. H. Ringhofer

  
  
• Dynamic spatial structure of spontaneous beams and their competition with ordinary diffracted beams in photorefractive BSO
  

  Preben Buchave, Sergei Lyuksyutov and Mikhail Vasnetsov

  
  

Absorption Effects

• Effect of absorption on photorefractive grating erasure

  Martin Liphardt, Arosha Goonesekera, Stephen Ducharme, James M. Takacs and Lei Zhang

  
  
• Absorption effects in photorefractive volume holographic memory

  Scott Campbell and Pochi Yeh

  
  

High Gain

• Very high single-pass two beam coupling gain at 647 nm under conditions of induced transparence in Rh doped BaTiO3

  M. Kaczmarek, R. W. Eason, M. H. Garrett and D. Rytz

  
  
  

6:00 - 8:15 pm

Buffet Dinner

8:15 - 8:45 pm

• Spin-orbit interaction of a photon (Invited)
  

  Boris Y. Zel'dovich

  
  

POSTER Session B and open bar!

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