Optics and Spectroscopy

Phase conjugation under four-wave mixing on resonant and thermal nonlinearities at relatively high reflection coefficients

A. A. Akimov, Valery V. Ivakhnik, В. И. Никонов

Published Sep 1, 2013• 4 citations

Abstract

The dependences of the reflection (transmission) coefficients and the half-width of the spatial frequency band on the pump-wave intensity are obtained for an object (signal) wave in degenerate and quasi-degenerate four-wave mixers on resonant and thermal nonlinearities. The effect of the difference of the pump-wave frequencies on the phase-conjugation quality is studied at relatively high reflection coefficients.

DOI: 10.1134/s0030400x13090038

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