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Photorefractive coherent oscillators(1,2) attract much attention because of their unusual properties and the possibility of their practical application in interferometry, laser beam conjugation and cleanup, etc. The majority of experiments (see the review article(3)) have been conducted with barium titanate or similar crystals where the nonlocal nonlinear response is governed by the diffusion of the photoexcited charge carriers(4).
In this paper another kind of photorefractive nonlinearity, nonlocal as well, which arises due to excitation of circular photovoltaic currents in Fe- or Cu-doped LiNbO3, or LiTaO3 crystals, and coherent oscillators based on this nonlinearity, are reported.
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Odoulov, S., Soskin, M. (1988). Coherent Optical Oscillation due to Vectorial Four-Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Crystals. In: Birman, J.L., Cummins, H.Z., Kaplyanskii, A.A. (eds) Laser Optics of Condensed Matter. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7341-8_49
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