Model of amplified scattering in photorefractive media: comparison of numerical results and experiment

E Parshall, M Cronin-Golomb, R Barakatf - Optics letters, 1995 - opg.optica.org
… and amplified scattering. We show that a one-dimensional model does not accurately …
amplified scattering for crystals with a nondiagonal electro-optic tensor and that surface scattering

Amplification, oscillation, and light-induced scattering in photorefractive crystals

SG Odoulov, MS Soskin - Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications …, 2008 - Springer
… The source of the initiating radiation, corresponding to luminescence in ordinary laser
systems, is in this case scattering by inhomogeneities in the medium (the amplified scattered

Wave propagation in photorefractive media

JO White, SK Kwong, M Cronin-Golomb… - Photorefractive Materials …, 2008 - Springer
… Soon after this discovery, photorefractive media were recognized as a possible replacement
Scattered light passing through the crystal in many directions is amplified at the expense of I …

Photorefractive two-wave mixing for image amplification in digital holography

N Koukourakis, T Abdelwahab, MY Li, H Höpfner… - Optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
… materials on the other hand have the ability to reject incoherent scattered light, as it does …
that is used for two-wave mixing amplification. The photorefractive medium we use is a 0-cut Rh:…

Degenerate parametric amplification in photorefractive media: theoretical analysis

HC Pedersen, PM Johansen - JOSA B, 1996 - opg.optica.org
… The photorefractive media seem to be an inexhaustible source of new and highly interesting
… conjugation, photoinduced scattering, and so forth. Most photorefractive effects arise from …

Transverse instability of counterpropagating waves in photorefractive media

M Saffman, D Montgomery, AA Zozulya, K Kuroda… - Physical Review A, 1993 - APS
… The problem is formulatedfor a sluggish nonlinear medium that … It is foundthat, while
photorefractive media provide sufhcient … amplified incoherent scattering (fanning} in …

Two-wave mixing in nonlinear media

P Yeh - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1989 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… A new concept of nonlinear Bragg scattering is introduced. We … of two laser beams inside a
photorefractive medium (see Fig. 1)… Such an amplification is responsible for the fanning and …

Photorefractive two-wave mixing characteristics for image amplification in diffusion-driven media

GC Gilbreath, AE Clement, SN Fugera… - Nonlinear Optics …, 1991 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… suitable candidate for extremely low light level image amplification in photorefractive media.
… of the beam is considerably distorted due to scattering. The beam also curves toward …

Generation of spatial subharmonics by two‐wave mixing in a nonlinear photorefractive medium

S Mallick, B Imbert, H Ducollet, JP Herriau… - Journal of applied …, 1988 - pubs.aip.org
amplification of this beam, When DeiJ is adjusted to amplify … only in the direction of the
amplified scattered beam but also in … Figure 2 (c) was produced by adjusting 8& so as to amplify

Theory and applications of four-wave mixing in photorefractive media

M Cronin-Golomb, B Fischer, J White… - IEEE Journal of …, 1984 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… It introduces an asymmetry that allows one beam to be amplified by constructive interference
with radiation scattered by the grating, while the other beam is attenuated by destructive …