This is another useful book in the Springer Series in Optical Sciences. It contains discussions of grating formation and detection, the phenomena that can be probed with grating techniques, and a large number of applications such as real-time holography, phase conjugation, and four-wave mixing. As is often the case with multiple-author books, some subjects are treated more than once, style and notation vary from section to section*there is a useful symbol index, however, so that multiple use of the same symbol is not especially confusing), and the authors' specialties receive more comprehensive treatment than some other subjects.
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