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Reported is on the direct excitation, by femtosecond pulses, of low fr
equency symmetric phonon polariton in LiNbO3. A comparison between dif
fraction efficiencies as a function of polarization allows to estimate
the relative contributions from the EO effect and the overall four-wa
ve mixing process.