Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Increase and bistability of the four-wave mixing reflectivity in photorefractive InP:Fe by grating-shift control

Yi Ding, Hans Joachim Eichler

Published Jan 1, 1994• 6 citations

Abstract

The optimal grating shift for four-wave mixing differs from that of two-wave mixing. With temperature control of this shift, the phase-conjugate reflectivity is increased to 400% in negative readout geometry. In the range of strong coupling the phase-shift control leads to bistable behavior of the four-wave mixing reflectivity.

DOI: 10.1364/josab.11.000119

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