Coherent-Beam Amplification and Polarization Switching in a Birefringent Medium—Photorefractive Crystal

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 1992, Pages 1816-1824

  Khoo, Iam Choon ^a   Liang, Yu ^a   Li, Hong ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT--BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT--POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICS--NONLINEAR; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION SWITCHING;

LIGHT;

EID: 0026909693     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.142579     Document Type: Article

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