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Strong lowering of the mirrorless optical oscillation threshold by angular mismatches for nonlocal photorefractive nonlinearity.

Riadh RebhiBoris SturmanPierre MatheyHans-rudolf Jauslin

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PhysicsOscillationbusiness.industryPhysics::OpticsNonlinear opticsPhotorefractive effectAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsLight intensityOpticsElectric fieldLight beambusinessPhase conjugationNonlinear Sciences::Pattern Formation and SolitonsRefractive index

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We show that the introduction of an angular mismatch for the pump waves results, in the case of nonlocal photorefractive nonlinearity, in a strong almost twofold decrease of the threshold value of the coupling strength for the mirrorless optical oscillation. This surprising feature will lead to a strong modification of the threshold and near-threshold behavior of a vast variety of optical oscillators based on the photorefractive phase conjugation and involving finite-size light beams.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2008-11-20Optics letters
10.1364/ol.33.002773https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19037422