Wave mixing in photorefractive bismuth silicon oxide crystals and its applications

JP Huignard, H Rajbenbach, P Refregier… - Optical …, 1985 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We review the conditions of high gain in wave-mixing experiments with photorefractive Bit
2Si020 crystals. These interactions are based on the recording of a moving interference …

Coherent signal beam amplification in two-wave mixing experiments with photorefractive Bi12SiO20 crystals

JP Huignard, A Marrakchi - Optics Communications, 1981 - Elsevier
The amplification of the input signal beam in two-wave mixing experiments with
photorefractive Bi 12 SiO 20 crystals is achieved when an additional phase shift is …

Polarization properties in two wave mixing with moving grating in photorefractive BSO crystals. Application to dynamic interferometry

JP Herriau, JP Huignard, AG Apostolidis… - Optics communications, 1985 - Elsevier
The polarization properties of the volume gratings in photorefractive B 12 SiO 20 crystals
permit to increase the contrast and signal to noise ratio in the image plane of a large size …

Two‐beam coupling in photorefractive Bi12SiO20 crystals with moving grating: Theory and experiments

P Refregier, L Solymar, H Rajbenbach… - Journal of Applied …, 1985 - pubs.aip.org
Large values of the exponential gain coefficient Γ are obtained (Γ≂ 8–12 cm− 1) when
recording with a moving grating in photorefractive BSO crystals (nearly degenerate two …

Amplified phase-conjugate beam reflection by four-wave mixing with photorefractive Bi12SiO20 crystals

H Rajbenbach, JP Huignard, P Refregier - Optics letters, 1984 - opg.optica.org
Phase-conjugate beam reflectivity in photorefractive Bi_12SiO_20 (BSO) crystals is
analyzed as a function of the following parameters involved in the four-wave mixing …

The effects of optical activity and absorption on two-wave mixing in Bi12SiO20

DJ Webb, L Solymar - Optics communications, 1991 - Elsevier
We consider non-degenerate two-wave mixing in photorefractive Bi 12 SiO 20. It is shown
theoretically that the presence of absorption and optical activity in the photorefractive media …

Two-wave mixing and energy transfer in Bi12SiO20 crystals: application to image amplification and vibration analysis

JP Huignard, A Marrakchi - Optics Letters, 1981 - opg.optica.org
The energy transfer between two beams (signal and reference, respectively) writing a
dynamic-volume hologram in photorefractive BSO crystals is applied to the image …

Low-noise amplification of ultraweak optical wave fronts in photorefractive Bi12SiO20

H Rajbenbach, A Delboulbé, JP Huignard - Optics letters, 1991 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate a technique for suppressing the optical noise of the
photorefractive amplifiers that exhibit a sharp gain resonance around an optimum pump-to …

Effects of strong modulation on beam-coupling gain in photorefractive materials: application to B12SiO20

JG Murillo, LF Magana, M Carrascosa, F Agulló-López - JOSA B, 1998 - opg.optica.org
The steady-state beam-coupling gain during two-wave mixing in photorefractive materials
has been analyzed in the strong nonlinear regime (high modulation depths). Numerical …

Amplification of high bandwidth signals through two‐wave mixing in photorefractive Bi12SiO20 crystals

GH De Montchenault, B Loiseaux… - Applied physics letters, 1987 - pubs.aip.org
We report a new nearly degenerate two‐wave mixing interaction in photorefractive
Bi12SiO20 crystals in which the signal beam is time modulated at high frequency. The beam …