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Optics Communications

Partial cancellation of specular reflection in the presence of a phase-conjugate mirror

I. Lindsay, John Christopher Dainty

Published Oct 1, 1986• 12 citations
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10.1016/0030-4018(86)90367-6

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We present experimental results showing the partial cancellation of the specular reflection off a lossless partially transmitting ordinary plane mirror in the presence of a phase conjugate mirror. This effect was first theoretically predicted by Drummond and Friberg.1 In the experimental situation a single domain photorefractive crystal of barium titanate operating via degenerate four-wave mixing acted as the phase conjugate mirror. It was placed behind a lossless partially transmitting ordinary plane mirror so that an optical resonant activity was created. Collimated light was directed onto the ordinary mirror at non-normal incidence. The intensity of the specular reflection was monitored, the extent of its cancellation for the measured phase conjugate reflectivities agreed well with the proposed theory.2 The experimental results lay marginally above the theoretical curve. The reason for such a systematic error is considered to lie with the fidelity of the phase conjugate generated.

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Specular reflection cancellation in an interferometer with a phase-conjugate mirror

P. D. Drummond, Ari T. Friberg

An ordinary mirror placed in front of a phase-conjugate mirror forms a type of Fabry–Perot interferometer with unusual reflection properties. The specularly reflected and phase-conjugate reflected intensities are analyzed for arbitrary reflection coefficients, given an incident monochromatic linearly polarized plane wave. It is shown that if the ordinary mirror is lossless and the phase-conjugate reflectivity is unity, the specularly reflected wave disappears completely. This leaves only the phase-conjugate reflected wave that propagates in the direction opposite to that of the incident wave. The above result is independent of the reflectivity of the ordinary mirror and the separation between the two interferometer mirrors. Some of the main effects due to absorption in the ordinary mirror are briefly discussed.

Journal of Applied Physics•Oct 1, 1983•31 citations
We present experimental results showing the partial cancellation of the specular reflection off a lossless partially transmitting ordinary plane mirror in the presence of a phase conjugate mirror. This effect was first theoretically predicted by Drummond and Friberg.1 In the experimental situation a single domain photorefractive crystal of barium titanate operating via degenerate four-wave mixing acted as the phase conjugate mirror. It was placed behind a lossless partially transmitting ordinary plane mirror so that an optical resonant activity was created. Collimated light was directed onto the ordinary mirror at non-normal incidence. The intensity of the specular reflection was monitored, the extent of its cancellation for the measured phase conjugate reflectivities agreed well with the proposed theory.2 The experimental results lay marginally above the theoretical curve. The reason for such a systematic error is considered to lie with the fidelity of the phase conjugate generated.
An ordinary mirror placed in front of a phase-conjugate mirror forms a type of Fabry–Perot interferometer with unusual reflection properties. The specularly reflected and phase-conjugate reflected intensities are analyzed for arbitrary reflection coefficients, given an incident monochromatic linearly polarized plane wave. It is shown that if the ordinary mirror is lossless and the phase-conjugate reflectivity is unity, the specularly reflected wave disappears completely. This leaves only the phase-conjugate reflected wave that propagates in the direction opposite to that of the incident wave. The above result is independent of the reflectivity of the ordinary mirror and the separation between the two interferometer mirrors. Some of the main effects due to absorption in the ordinary mirror are briefly discussed.