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Photorefractive Effects, Materials, and Devices

Anisotropic Four-Wave Mixing in Optical Waveguides

Detlef Kip, Eckhard Krätzig

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

Photorefractive crystals like LiNbO3, KNbO3 or BaTiO3 are suitable media for frequency degenerate two- and four-wave mixing allowing for amplification and phase conjugation of coherent light beams [1, 2].
DOI
10.1364/pmed.1993.frc.10

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