Abstract. Electro-optical crystals are used for real-time holography, optical data storage, optical information processing and more recently for speckle applications. Many ferro-electric materials were investigated, the Bi12 Si0 20 (BSO), a cubic, para-electric and electro-optic material was found to be very useful for real-time holographic interferometry and speckle applications. For the application of the BSO in real-time metrology, the crystals is usually biased with a transverse electric field in the 110 or 100 crystallographic direction. Illuminating the crystal with spatially structured information in the no direction as a result of a hologram or speckle pattern, a space charge field is built up, leading to a refractive index variation in the crystal. Double-exposure techniques and time average exposure will be presented for real-time deformation displacement and vibration analysis and for contour line holography using a two-wavelengths method.Young's fringes of double-exposed, or in the time-average recorded speckle patterns will be attractive for real-time deformation displacement and vibration analysis.