Abstract.
The coherent oscillation, because of nearly degenerate four-wave mixing in photorefractive crystals with two types of movable charge carriers, occurs at two spectral lines symmetrically shifted with respect to the pump frequency. Consequently the output oscillation exhibits the high contrast intensity modulation. The frequency separation of two oscillation modes (and modulation frequency of the output intensity) depend on the incident light intensity and spatial frequency of the developing grating. A model is presented explaining this type of oscillation by the two-maxima shape of the gain spectrum in crystals with sufficiently different relaxation times of two space-charge gratings, one formed by movable electrons and the other one by movable holes. The experimental data for coherent oscillator with tin hypothiodiphosphate (Sn2P2S6) are in reasonable quantitative agreement with the calculations.
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Received: 12 November 1998 / Revised version: 11 January 1999 / Published online: 7 April 1999
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Shumelyuk, A., Odoulov, S. & Brost, G. Multiline coherent oscillation in photorefractive crystals with two species of movable carriers . Appl Phys B 68, 959–966 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050730
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