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We describe and measure the effects of self-defocusing on the various coupling effects produced when two coherent, noncollinear, picosecond optical pulses (strong excitation and weak probe) are both spatially and temporally coincident in a thin silicon wafer. Specifically, we observe that the weak probe beam experiences considerably more defocusing than the excitation beam. We believe that this is the first direct confirmation of weak-wave retardation in light-by-light scattering experiments. We also observe the effects of this defocusing on the quality of the forward-traveling conjugate wave.
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Van Stryland, E.W., Smirl, A.L., Boggess, T.F., Soileau, M.J., Wherrett, B.S., Hopf, F.A. (1982). Weak-Wave Retardation and Phase-Conjugate Self-Defousing in Si. In: Eisenthal, K.B., Hochstrasser, R.M., Kaiser, W., Laubereau, A. (eds) Picosecond Phenomena III. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87864-0_89
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