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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Four-wave-mixing two-photon coherence in semiconductors

Mansoor Sheik‐Bahae, J. Wang, Edesly J. Canto-Said, R. De Salvo, David J. Hagan, Eric W. Van Stryland

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

Using a standard backward phase-conjugate degenerate four-wave-mixing (DFWM) geometry, we have measured the dependence of the DFWM signal on the polarization of the interacting fields for a number of polycrystalline (i.e. isotropic) semiconductors and dielectrics within their transparency region.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1993.fh.4

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