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Four-wave interaction due to a thermal nonlinearity in active media of solid-state lasers

Michail G. Galushkin, Konstantin V. Mitin, K. A. Sviridov

Published Dec 31, 1994• 2 citations
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Abstract

A calculation is reported of the reflection coefficients for degenerate four-wave mixing in thermal gratings that form in the active media of solid-state lasers. It is shown that these reflection coefficients may be close to the reflection coefficients of amplitude gratings in the active media of ruby crystal and neodymium glass lasers.
DOI
10.1070/qe1994v024n12abeh000263

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