Abstract

Nondegenerate four-wave mixing (NDFWM) inside a semiconductor laser is attractive¹ since the intracavity nature of the mixing geometry² allows high efficiency to be achieved while requiring pump powers of only a few milliwatts. In a theoretical treatment of this process,³ the semiconductor laser medium was modeled as an inverted two- level system. Such an approach, although capable of explaining the qualitative behavior, has several limitations.

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