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OPC in Four-Wave Mixing

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Principles of Phase Conjugation

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Abstract

OPC in four-wave mixing (FWM) has been realized for various third-order optical nonlinearities. Irrespective of the type of third-order nonlinearity of a medium, a phenomenological study of the generation of a phase-conjugated wave in FWM is carried out in much the same way. In this chapter we will present a phenomenological study of this method which enables us to reveal its major features. The features of particular mechanisms of nonlinearity will be discussed in Chap. 7.

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Zel’dovich, B.Y., Pilipetsky, N.F., Shkunov, V.V. (1985). OPC in Four-Wave Mixing. In: Principles of Phase Conjugation. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38959-0_6

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