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Applied Physics Letters

Solvable optimized four-wave mixing configuration with cubic photorefractive crystals

Baruch Fischer, Shimon Weiss

Published Jul 25, 1988• 14 citations
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Abstract

An analysis of an optimized configuration for phase conjugation and four-wave mixing in cubic photorefractive crystals (such as GaAs and Bi12SiO20) is presented. We obtain an exact solution of the four-wave mixing configuration, and find a wide range of self-oscillation regime.
DOI
10.1063/1.100140

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