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Four-wave mixing in inverted medium of the photodissociative iodine laser

Victor G. Bespalov, O. B. Danilov, Aleksandr P. Zhevlakov, Stanislav A. Tul'skii

Published Apr 11, 1996• 0 citations

Abstract

In this paper recording possibilities of non-stationary gratings in active medium of photodissociative iodine laser and using four-wave mixing for phase conjugation in its own medium were experimentally investigated for the first time.

DOI: 10.1117/12.238065

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