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Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics

Four-wave interaction of middle-infrared radiation in media with a thermal nonlinearity

Oleg L. Antipov, Alexander A. Betin, E. А. Zhukov, S. G. Turgenev

Published Nov 30, 1989• 6 citations
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Abstract

Theoretical and experimental investigations were made of a four-wave interaction of middle-infrared radiation based on a thermal nonlinearity of absorbing liquids and gases. A study was made of the influence of parasitic effects associated with heating of a nonlinear medium (such as the thermal lens effect, frequency sweeping of interacting waves, thermal expansion of the medium, and convection) on the efficiency of the four-wave interaction and the quality of phase conjugation utilizing this interaction. The conditions under which this influence is minimal were identified. An experimental study was made of phase conjugation of CO 2 laser radiation by a four-wave interaction in CCl 4 with a high reflection coefficient (up to 20% in the cw regime). The attained phase conjugation was limited the thermal lens effect, but this could be compensated.

DOI
10.1070/qe1989v019n11abeh009586

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Theoretical and experimental investigations were made of a four-wave interaction of middle-infrared radiation based on a thermal nonlinearity of absorbing liquids and gases. A study was made of the influence of parasitic effects associated with heating of a nonlinear medium (such as the thermal lens effect, frequency sweeping of interacting waves, thermal expansion of the medium, and convection) on the efficiency of the four-wave interaction and the quality of phase conjugation utilizing this interaction. The conditions under which this influence is minimal were identified. An experimental study was made of phase conjugation of CO 2 laser radiation by a four-wave interaction in CCl 4 with a high reflection coefficient (up to 20% in the cw regime). The attained phase conjugation was limited the thermal lens effect, but this could be compensated.
A theoretical analysis is made of the efficiency of typical ring systems of phase-conjugating mirrors utilizing a degenerate four-wave interaction in media with a thermal nonlinearity. The analysis is made for steady-state conditions taking into account wave saturation effects in an amplifier situated in a positive feedback circuit. It is shown that the reflection coefficient in these systems is extremely sensitive to the level of the phase-conjugate signal (as the ratio of the signal intensity to the saturation intensity of the amplifier active medium is increased, the reflection coefficient of the ring phase-conjugating mirror decreases sharply). It is also found that at a high level of the nonlinearity and for an appreciable gain per pass, these systems exhibit multistability (i.e., several different steady states exist).
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