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Fabrication and Characterization of Disordered Polymer Optical Fibers for Transverse Anderson Localization of Light
Published on: July 29, 2013
Configurational disorder and the local field effects in nonlinear optical systems
Abstract:
We argue that in nonlinear optical systems with atoms randomly distributed in crystals or amorphous hosts one should go beyond the Clausius-Mossoti limit in order to take into account the effect of local eld uctuations induced by congurational disorder in atom position. This eect is analyzed by means of a random local mean field approach with neglect of correlations between dipole moments of different atoms. The formalism is applied to 3-level type systems with quantum coherence possessing an absorptionless index of refraction and lasing without inversion. We show that the eect of congurational fluctuations results in the suppression of the atom susceptibility compared with the predictions based on the Clausious-Mossoti equation.
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