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Excited-state absorption and pump propagation effects on optical phase conjugation in a saturable absorber

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Abstract

Phase conjugation by degenerate four-wave mixing in a saturable absorbing medium with a relatively long-lived excited state is analyzed; the analytical results are compared with experimental results. We propose a four-level model and take into account the effects of both excited-state absorption and pump propagation to explain the experimental results, which could not be explained by the models proposed previously. The numerical result predicts that the value of the phase-conjugate reflectivity as a function of the pump intensity is maximum at a certain absorbance (as absorbance increases) that is dependent on the cross section of the excited-state absorption. The present analysis explains most observations in the experiment, which was performed with a saturable-dye-doped polymer film as the saturable absorbing medium.

© 1993 Optical Society of America

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