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The steady-state amplification of light beam during two-wave mixing in photorefractive materials has been analysed in the strong nonlinear regime. The oscillation conditions for unidirectional ring resonator have been studied. The signal beam can be amplified in the presence of material absorption, provided the gain due to the beam coupling is large enough to overcome the cavity losses. Such amplification is responsible for the oscillations. The gain bandwidth is only a few Hz. In spite of such an extremely narrow bandwidth, unidirectional oscillation can be observed easily at any cavity length in ring resonators by using photorefractive crystals as the medium and this can be explained in terms of the photorefractive phase-shift. The presence of such a phase-shift allows the possibility of the non-reciprocal steady-state transfer of energy between the two light beams. Dependence of gain bandwidth on coupling constant, absorption coefficient of the material’s cavity length (crystal length) and modulation ratio have also been studied.
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Maurya, M.K., Yadav, T.K. & Yadav, R.A. Dependence of gain and phase-shift on crystal parameters and pump intensity in unidirectional photorefractive ring resonators. Pramana - J Phys 72, 709–726 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-009-0063-2
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Keywords
- Two-wave mixing
- unidirectional ring resonator
- photorefractive phase-shift
- non-reciprocal energy transfer