PROBE BEAM AMPLIFICATION AND PHASE CONJUGATION SELF-OSCILLATION IN A THIN KERR MEDIUM

被引:6
作者
KHOO, IC [1 ]
ZHAO, Y [1 ]
机构
[1] PENN STATE UNIV,SPACE SCI LAB,UNIVERSITY PK,PA 16802
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Optical Devices;
D O I
10.1109/3.18551
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
In a highly-nonlinear thin Kerr medium, the intersection of a strong pump beam and a much weaker probe beam produces a sizeable diffracted beam whose presence changes both the transmitted probe beam gain and the phase conjugation self-oscillation thresholds. An analytical theoretical calculation of these effects involving degenerate multiwave mixing processes is presented.
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页码:368 / 372
页数:5
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