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Orientational dependence of photorefractive two-beam coupling in InP:Fe
J Strait1, J D Reed, N V Kukhtarev
1Department of Physics, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, USA.
Abstract:
We present the theory for photorefractive two-beam coupling without optical activity in cubic crystals rotated around the [110] axis. We also describe two-beam coupling experiments in InP:Fe that fit the theory closely. The 15.5% gain enhancement for grating wave vectors aligned along the <111> directions is demonstrated explicitly.
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