Photorefractive two-wave mixing in the presence of high-speed optical phase modulation.

Equations that describe the steady-state dependence of the coherent-coupling properties of photorefractively induced refractive-index gratings on high-speed periodic biphase, sinusoidal, and triangular phase modulation impressed on one of the input optical beams are found and solved for both depleted and undepleted pump conditions. The period of the phase modulation wave form was kept short compared with the grating-formation time but did not cause significant spectral broadening. The results obtained were verified with data obtained from measurements of two-wave mixing in the photorefractive material, InP:Fe.