Parametric processes and gain saturation in resonantly enhanced optical phase conjugation in Na vapor near a two-photon resonance

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiner K. Wunderlich ◽  
W. R. Garrett ◽  
M. G. Payne

We present a study of optical phase conjugation through degenerate four-wave mixing in CuCl, as a function of light frequency, intensity, polarization and sample temperature. The phase-conjugate signal exhibits two maxima at the frequencies of the T 5 exciton (one-photon resonance) and of the biexciton (two-photon resonance). By appropriate combinations of the input beam polarizations, it is possible to single out the various terms contributing to the signal (small-spaced, large-spaced population grating and two-photon coherent excitation). The absolute value of X (3) responsible for the two-photon resonance has been determined ( x (3) (-w,w,w, -w) = 3.10 -7 e.s.u.). It leads to ‘mirror’ efficiencies of the order of 10% for input pump intensities I 0 » 10 5 W cm -2 and sample thickness d» 10 -4 cm. At higher I 0 , a saturation of the reflection takes place. The variation of the conjugate beam with temperature has been studied in the range 15 K < T <70 K. Finally, the phase-conjugate nature of the signal has been verified by inserting an aberrator in the path of the input probe beam, and by checking the reconstruction of the reflected beam.


1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 3696-3698 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. Chase ◽  
M. L. Claude ◽  
D. Hulin ◽  
A. Mysyrowicz

1993 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 117-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. GRYNBERG

We present a brief review of optical phase conjugation by four-wave mixing in atomic vapors. We emphasize the particular properties of vapors for this process. We discuss the case of nearly resonant excitation for two-level atoms, the case of multilevel atoms where the nonlinearity arises from optical pumping and the nearly resonant two-photon excitation. We finally describe the modification of phase-conjugate signals when one goes from the Bragg regime to the Raman-Nath regime and we show how one can achieve a phase-contrast mirror rather than a phase-conjugate mirror in this last case.


1997 ◽  
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pp. 1677 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. T. Grove ◽  
E. Rousseau ◽  
Xiao-Wei Xia ◽  
D. S. Hsiung ◽  
M. S. Shahriar ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang S. He ◽  
Hai-Yan Qin ◽  
Qingdong Zheng ◽  
Paras N. Prasad ◽  
Steffen Jockusch ◽  
...  

1989 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1908-1917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martti Kauranen ◽  
Daniel J. Gauthier ◽  
Michelle S. Malcuit ◽  
Robert W. Boyd

IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 44059-44068
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Narayanan Venkatasubramani ◽  
Aneesh Sobhanan ◽  
Anirudh Vijay ◽  
R. David Koilpillai ◽  
Deepa Venkitesh

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