Abstract

In this paper, we present a quantitative theory and experimental studies of the detailed dynamics of transient optical wave mixing processes.¹,² In particular, we have analyzed and explicitly obtained the time dependencies of all the interacting waves (our model is for four waves as shown in figure 1). Our theory takes into account diffusive mechanisms that characterize many nonlinear optical processes (e.g., carrier diffusion, thermal diffusion, intermolecular correlations, etc.).

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