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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Coherent Beam Combination Via Microparticle Plasma Modes

Daniel N. Rogovin, T. P. Shen

Published Apr 8, 1988• 0 citations
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Abstract

Recently Hache, Ricard and Flytzanis have reported interesting observations and calculations on phase conjugation via degenerate four-wave mixing in gold colloids. The generation of phase conjugate radiation in these media arises from and reflects the creation of static index grating imposed on the electronic wave functions within the microparticies. These encouraging findings motivate us to consider the possibility of generating moving index gratings in these media with possible applications to coherent beam combination.

DOI
10.1117/12.943840

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