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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Spatiotemporal properties of photorefractive beam fanning

Frederick Vachss, M. D. Ewbank

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

The fanning of beams resulting from amplified scattering poses a significant limit on the signal-to-noise ratio achievable in high gain photorefractive amplifiers.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1993.md.2

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