Transient Response of Kerr-like Phase Conjugators

G. E. Torres-Cisneros, José Javier Sánchez Mondragón, Loric Torres

J. P. Lavoine, A. A. Villaeys

B. R. Suydam, Robert A. Fisher

The transient response of Kerr-like phase conjugators is treated and reviewed. The cases of cw and transient pump waves are considered. A general formalism is derived, with application to specific cases such as pulse reshaping, chirp reversal, and temporal reversal of optical waveforms.

B. R. Suydam

In earlier work, the transient response of a four-wave optical phase conjugator was studied. Here we study the inverse problem, namely: How must we tailor the input pulse in order to obtain a prescribed conjugator output? We find that an arbitrarily short output pulse can be obtained and show how the input, or probe, must be programmed in order to achieve this result.

Pochi Yeh

Joshu Leonardy, Milivoj R. Belić, F. Kaiser