Phase conjugate reflectivity improvement by an increase in angle-resolved optical output

Rick P. Trebino, Anthony E.. Siegman

M. Blaauboer, Daan Lenstra, A. Lodder

Zhiguo Zhang, Yong Zhu, Changxi Yang +1 more

We report for the first time a double 45°-cut mutually pumped phase conjugate mirror, which has high phase conjugate reflectivities and is highly insensitive to the alignment of the two incident beams. For example, two mutually incoherent incident beams can produce their own phase conjugate outputs when the angle between the incident beams is varied from as much as 7° to 140° and over 60% conjugate reflectivity can be obtained. Furthermore, the phase conjugate outputs are stable because the competition from the self-pumped phase conjugation can be avoided easily.

Cunkai Wu, FAN JUN-YIN

Shubhrajyotsna Aithal, P. S. Aithal, Navakant Bhat

Optical phase conjugation through degenerate four-wave mixing is observed in 4-[4-(Dimethylamino)styryl]-1-docosyl pyridinium bromide (DASPB) dye-doped in Polymethyl methacrylate - metacrylic acid (PMMA-PA) polymer films under low-power, continuous-wave laser irradiation. A maximum phase conjugate efficiency of 0.42% has been obtained for probe beam intensity at 2.5 W/cm2. Phase conjugation is observed for both parallel- and orthogonally-polarized probe and pump beams. The maximum PC reflectivity is achieved when the angle between probe beam and forward pump beam is 8 degrees. The effects of dye concentration, inter beam angle between probe and forward pump beam on phase conjugation reflectivity are also studied. PC signal strength first increases and then decreases with time. PC reflectivity is also increased by increasing the intensity of the backward and forward pump beam. The polarization and intensity profile are verified to be preserved in the conjugate signal. The predominant phase conjugation signal is attributed due to the saturable absorption and two photon induced fluorescence property of the dye molecules.

Ian C. McMichael, M. D. Ewbank, Frederick Vachss