Abstract
We demonstrate that two-wave mixing of partially coherent light beams inside a medium with an inertial nonlinear response allows one to increase the coherence substantially. An increase of the coherence function from 0.24 to 0.94 is demonstrated experimentally in SBN:Ce crystal.
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