Improved slow light performances using photorefractive two-wave mixing

N Bouldja, M Sciamanna, D Wolfersberger - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
… Our photorefractive slow light system allows combining low group velocity with large …
photorefractive material at room temperature. We specifically address the question of the slow light

Slow light with photorefractive four-wave mixing

P Mathey, G Gadret, K Shcherbin - Physical Review A, 2011 - APS
… This small pump ratio is close to the optimal one for the crystals with a large coupling constant.
The photorefractive crystals we used in our experiments are quite slow at low intensities. …

Fast-light in a photorefractive crystal for gravitational wave detection

HN Yum, M Salit, GS Pati, S Tseng, PR Hemmer… - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
photorefractive crystal (such as SPS: Sn2P2S6) could be employed to enhance the
sensitivity-bandwidth product of a LIGO type gravitational wave detector augmented by a White Light

Slow and fast light in photorefractive SBN: 60

W Horn, J v Bassewitz, C Denz - Journal of Optics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
… demonstrate slow and fast light at room temperature by dispersive phase-coupling in a
photorefractive SBN:60 crystal… Compared to slow light based on CPO in ruby crystals [10], gain in …

Time-bandwidth problem in room temperature slow light

Z Deng, DK Qing, P Hemmer, CHR Ooi, MS Zubairy… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
… For this demonstration, we choose a room temperature solid-state material, namely, a
photorefractive crystal, wherein slow-light is produced by the narrow-band gain due to two-beam …

Slowdown of nanosecond light pulses with photorefractive two-wave mixing

N Bouldja, M Tsyhyka, A Grabar, M Sciamanna… - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
… In the demonstrations of slow light in photorefractive (PR) … Here we demonstrate that the
slowdown of light in a PR crystal … may indeed reduce the Sn2P2S6 crystal response time to a …

Photorefractive materials

GC Valley, MB Klein, RA Mullen, D Rytz… - Annual Review of …, 1988 - annualreviews.org
… /S is a property of the host photo refractive crystal and not subject to variation except by heating…
in the writing of a photorefractive grating is the response time. The photorefractive effect is …

The photorefractive effect

DM Pepper, J Feinberg, NV Kukhtarev - Scientific American, 1990 - JSTOR
… whose in tensity varies sinusoidally with posi tion in the crystal. If this sinusoidal pattern of
light forms within a photo refractive crystal, electric charges will move to generate an electric …

Zero-broadening slow light from photorefractive two-wave mixing

N Bouldja, M Sciamanna, A Grabar, D Wolfersberger - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
… In this Letter, we demonstrate the possibility to all-optically control the group delay in a
photorefractive (PR) crystal by the use of the two-wave mixing (TWM) effect in the pulse regime at …

Slow light using photorefractive nonlinear optics

N Bouldja, M Sciamanna… - Nonlinear Optics and its …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… The SPS photorefractive crystal has already been used for slow light in the visible … slow
and the fast light propagation scheme using the beam fanning in the SPS photorefractive crystal