General solution of contradirectional two-wave mixing with partially coherent waves in photorefractive crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1396-1406

  Yi, Xianmin ^a   Yang, Changxi ^a   Yeh, Pochi ^a   Lin, Shiuan Huei ^b   Hsu, Ken Yuh ^b  

^a University of California at Santa Barbara   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 0031514910     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001396     Document Type: Article

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