TY - GEN
T1 - "NEW THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION AND SELF-OSCILLATION IN A THIN NONLINEAR KERR MEDIUM"
AU - Khoo, I. C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation ECS 87120T8.
Publisher Copyright:
© 1988 OSA/IQEC 1988.
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - The theory and practice of optical phase conjugation via degenerative four wave mixing in a nonlinear medium have been standardized for many years. In most of these studies, the role played by the diffracted beam has been largely ignored. Recently, we have shown that in a nonlinear thin medium, under phase-matched conditions, the pump-diffracted beam coupling can give rise to substantial amplification of the probe beam for both local (e.g., Kerr-like) and non-local diffusive (e.g., thermal and electronic) types of nonlinearity.1, 2 The occurrence of these effects, and their magnitude, mandate a reexamination of a similar wave mixing effect, i.e., optical phase-conjugation involving a probe, a pump and another (e.g., retroreflected pump) strong beam. As shown in Figure 1, in the limit of a very weak probe compared to the pump beam, there are altogether six coupled waves, including the three beams mentioned above, the two diffracted beams, and the phase conjugated beam.
AB - The theory and practice of optical phase conjugation via degenerative four wave mixing in a nonlinear medium have been standardized for many years. In most of these studies, the role played by the diffracted beam has been largely ignored. Recently, we have shown that in a nonlinear thin medium, under phase-matched conditions, the pump-diffracted beam coupling can give rise to substantial amplification of the probe beam for both local (e.g., Kerr-like) and non-local diffusive (e.g., thermal and electronic) types of nonlinearity.1, 2 The occurrence of these effects, and their magnitude, mandate a reexamination of a similar wave mixing effect, i.e., optical phase-conjugation involving a probe, a pump and another (e.g., retroreflected pump) strong beam. As shown in Figure 1, in the limit of a very weak probe compared to the pump beam, there are altogether six coupled waves, including the three beams mentioned above, the two diffracted beams, and the phase conjugated beam.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85134893123
T3 - Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
BT - International Quantum Electronics Conference, IQEC 1988
PB - Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
T2 - International Quantum Electronics Conference, IQEC 1988
Y2 - 18 July 1988 through 21 July 1988
ER -