Abstract

Four-wave mixing in a saturated gain medium has been modeled numerically, and the predictions for the reflectivity have been compared with experiments carried out in the laser-pumped dye Rhodamine 6G. It is demonstrated that the saturable absorption of the inversion laser pump has a dramatic influence on the intensity dependence of the four-wave-mixing reflectivity.

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High-reflectivity four-wave mixing by gain saturation of nanosecond and microsecond radiation in Nd:YAG

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Investigation of multipass geometries for efficient degenerate four-wave mixing in Nd:YAG

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