DocumentCode
1090416
Title
Transient effects in degenerate four-wave mixing in saturable absorbers
Author
Silberberg, Yaron ; Bar-Joseph, Israel
Author_Institution
Department of Electronics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Isreal
Volume
17
Issue
9
fYear
1981
fDate
9/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1967
Lastpage
1970
Abstract
The transient behavior of degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) in a three-level saturable absorber is analyzed and verified experimentally. A sharp peak of phase-conjugated reflectivity is predicted and observed at high pump intensities for pulsed beams. The influence of the time-dependent behavior of the conjugate wave signal on results of pulsed-beam experiments is studied. It is shown that transient effects could account for discrepancies between previous experimental results and steady-state theory.
Keywords
Optical mixers; Optical propagation in absorbing media; Four-wave mixing; Gas lasers; Helium; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Probes; Reflectivity; Resonance; Steady-state; Transient analysis;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9197
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JQE.1981.1071311
Filename
1071311
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