Abstract
It has been shown experimentally1 that a subharmonic beam may appear spontaneously between two pump beams without detuning either of the beams when a field varying sinusoidally or in the form of a square wave is applied across the crystal. That work has now been extended to cover the rise of the subharmonics as a function of time and their dependence under stationary conditions on the ratio between the pump intensities. The experiments were done on photorefractive bismuth silicate crystals. A simple theory is found to describe well the repetition frequency at which the subharmonics appear.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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