Abstract
Spatial soliton-induced cloning, which achieves and maintains perfect spatial overlap of interacting beams, is proposed as a tool for amplification of nonlinear optical effects on propagation. This is illustrated by the enhancement of the parametric amplification, obtained through pump-induced cloning of the transverse profiles of the copropagating probe and generated four-wave mixing beams, in an all-optical antiwaveguiding configuration.
- Received 6 September 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.031801
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