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Reflectivity enhancement due to linear absorption in photorefractive phase-conjugate mirrors with depleted pumps

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Using numerical simulations of the fully nonlinear equations that describe the steady-state optical fields that develop within photorefractive phase-conjugate mirrors, we have shown that the phase-conjugate reflectivity can be enhanced in the presence of linear absorption. Our investigations focused on the development of the optical fields that arise when the reflectivity is nonmonotonically dependent on the linear absorption both near and away from self-oscillation. We have identified several significant features associated with the enhancement. Near self-oscillation and with strong pumps, an increase in the loss can lead to a more efficient energy transfer to the probe by altering the phase of the coupling, resulting in an increase in the index grating amplitude. Away from self-oscillation and with strong pumps, the loss alters the distribution of the grating within the crystal, and maximum reflectivity is associated with an optimum distribution. Reflectivity enhancement that is due to linear absorption was shown to occur even in the weak-pump case, thus providing unequivocal evidence of the veracity of this phenomenon.

© 1997 Optical Society of America

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