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Investigation of photorefractive subharmonics in the absence of wave mixing

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Using a new optical configuration free from the influence of photorefractive optical nonlinearity, we investigate the main characteristics of the spatial subharmonic K/2 excited in a Bi12SiO20 crystal by a light-intensity pattern with wave vector K and frequency Ω. It is shown that in a large region of intensity and applied electric field the optimum value Ω of the frequency corresponds to the conditions of parametric excitation of the weakly damped eigenmodes of the medium: the space-charge waves. The threshold and above-threshold characteristics of the subharmonic regime are in good agreement with the theory.

© 1995 Optical Society of America

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