Beam Polarization Dependence of Diffraction Efficiency in Photorefractive LiNb03 Crystal

In weak doped photorefractive LiNbO3 crystal, the diffraction efficiency is highly relevant to the writing and reading beam polarizations. In this paper, based on dynamic coupled-wave equations, we theoretically discuss the diffraction efficiency under four writing and reading polarization conditions, then reach the proven conclusion that with o-polarized beams to write and with e-polarized beam to readout, the diffraction is the largest.