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Enhanced optooptical light deflection using cavity resonance
Applied Optics
|June 10, 2010
Abstract:
The efficiency of optooptieal light deflection by nondegencrote four-wave mixing can be increased significantly by placing the grating in a resonant cavity. Theory and experiment are presented for linear and ring cavities. Efficiency improvement by an order of magnitude is predicted, and improvements by a factor of 5.6 hove been demonstrated.
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