THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE INTENSITY DEPENDENCE OF TOTAL EFFECTIVE TRAP DENSITY IN PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS

Intensity dependence of the total effective trap density N_eff is studied theoretically for the two-centre and the three-charge-state photorefractive crystals. The results show that N_eff always increases with increasing intensity in three-charge-state crystals, whereas it has more complicated behaviors in two-centre crystals. When S_D\gamma_T/S_T\gamma_D is small, N_eff increases and tends to saturate with increasing intensity for both type-A and type-B two-centre crystals. When S_D\gamma_T/S_T\gamma_D is large, N_eff increases to a maximum and then decreases a little for type-A crystals and decreases greatly for type-B crystals. The different intensity dependences of N_eff in the two types of crystals come from their different level structures.