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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Polarization Properties Of Phase Conjugation By Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing In Saturable Absorbers

Robert W. Boyd, Daniel J. Gauthier, Martti Olavi Kauranen, Michelle S. Malcuit, Wayne R. Tompkin

Published Aug 8, 1989• 1 citation
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Abstract

Dye molecules held rigidly in solid hosts display unusual polarization properties that can be exploited to produce nearly perfect vector phase conjugation with high sensitivity.
DOI
10.1117/12.951728

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