Abstract
The coupled-wave equations describing the optical phase conjugation by degenerate four-wave mixing are usually solved in the so-called slowly varying amplitude approximation, wherein only the first derivatives of the amplitudes of the probe and the conjugate waves are taken into account. Here we solve the coupled-wave equations without this approximation for nonresonance interactions. This leads to an oscillatory dependence of both reflectivity and transmittance on the normalized coupling constant, Also, the intensity distributions of the probe and the conjugate waves show oscillatory beatlike behaviors around the corresponding slowly varying amplitude approximation distributions. These behaviors can be interpreted as the diffraction of the conjugate (probe) wave from a grating resulting from the superposition of the pump–pump and the pump–probe gratings.
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