Direct detection of optical phase conjugation in a colloidal medium

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 6330-6335

  López Mariscal, Carlos ^a   Gutiérrez Vega, Julio C ^a   McGloin, David ^b   Dholakia, Kishan ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL KERR MEDIUM; INTENSITY GRATING DISTRIBUTION; INTERFERING LASER BEAMS;

OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

EID: 34248559654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.006330     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. R. W. Hellwarth, "Generation of time-reversed wave fronts by nonlinear refraction," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 1-3 (1977).
2. D. M. Bloom and G. C. Bjorklund, "Conjugate wave-front generation and image reconstruction by four-wave mixing," Appl. Phys. Lett. 31, 592-594 (1977).
3. A. Yariv and D. M. Pepper, "Amplified reflection, phase conjugation, and oscillation in degenerate four-wave mixing," Opt. Lett. 1, 16-18 (1977).
4. S. M. Jensen and R. W. Hellwarth, "Observation of the time-reversed replica of a monochromatic optical wave," Appl. Phys. Lett. 32, 166-168 (1978).
5. M. Cronin-Golomb, J. O. White, B. Fischer, and A. Yariv, "Exact solution of a nonlinear model of four-wave mixing and phase conjugation," Opt. Lett. 7, 313-315 (1982).
6. P. F. Liao, D. M. Bloom, and N. P. Economou, "CW optical wave-front conjugation by saturated absorption in atomic sodium vapor," App. Phys. Lett. 32, 813-815 (1978).
7. T. Mikropoulos, S. Cohen, M. Kompitsas, S. Goutis, and C. Baharis, "Phase conjugation by degenerate four-wave mixing in barium vapor," Opt. Lett. 15, 1270-1272 (1990).
8. P. F. Liao and D. M. Bloom, "Continuous-wave backward-wave generation by degenerate four-wave mixing in ruby," Opt. Lett. 3, 4-6 (1978).
9. E. Freysz, E. Laffon and A. Ducasse, "Phase conjugation used as a test of the local and nonlocal characteristics of optical nonlinearities in microemulsions," Opt. Lett. 16, 1644-1646 (1991).
10. D. Fekete, J. C. Auyeung, and A. Yariv, "Phase-conjugate reflection by degenerate four-wave mixing in a nematic liquid crystal in the isotropic phase," Opt. Lett. 5, 51-53 (1980).
11. J. W. R. Tabosa and D. V. Petrov, "Optical pumping of orbital angular momentum of light in cold cesium atoms," Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4967-4970 (1999).
12. S. Barreiro and J. W. R. Tabosa, "Generation of Light Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum via Induced Coherence Grating in Cold Atoms," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133001 (2003).
13. S. Barreiro, J. W. R. Tabosa, J. P. Torres, Y. Deyanova, and L. Torner, "Four-wave mixing of light beams with engineered orbital angular momentum in cold cesium atoms," Opt. Lett. 29, 1515-1517 (2004).
14. P. W. Smith, A. Ashkin, and W. J. Tomlinson, "Four-wave mixing in an artificial Kerr medium," Opt. Lett. 6, 284-286 (1981).
15. P. W. Smith, P. J. Maloney, and A. Ashkin, "Use of a liquid suspension of dielectric spheres as an artificial Kerr medium," Opt. Lett. 7, 347-349 (1982).
16. A. E. Neeves, M. H. Birnboim, "Polarization selective optical phase conjugation in a Kerr-like medium," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 5, 701-708 (1988).
17. R. Pizzoferrato, M. De Spirito, U. Zammit, M. Marinelli, F. Scudieri, and S. Martelluci, "Optical phase conjugation through translational and rotational diffusive rearrangements of liquid-dispersed microparticles," Phys. Rev. A 41, 2882-2885 (1990).
18. L. Allen, M. W. Bijersbergen, R. J. C. Spreeuw and J. P. Woerdman, "Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes," Phys. Rev. A 45, 8185-8189 (1992).
19. A. Chowdhury, B. J. Ackerson and N. A. Clark, "Laser-induced freezing," Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 833-836 (1985).
20. N. R. Heckenberg, R. McDuff, C. P Smith, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop and M. J. Wegener, "Laser beams with phase singularities," Opt. Quantum Elect. 24, S951-S962 (1992)
21. M. Harris, C. A. Hill, and J. M. Vaughan, "Laser modes with helical wave fronts, " Phys. Rev. A 49, 3119-3122 (1994).
22. I. G. Marienko, M. S. Soskin, and M. V. Vasnetsov, "Phase conjugation of wavefronts containing phase singularities," Proc. SPIE 3487, 39-41 (1998).
23. W. Jiang, Q. Chen, Y. Zhang and G.-C. Guo, "Computation of topological charges of optical vortices via nondegenerate four-wave mixing," Phys. Rev. A 74, 043811 (2006).
24. W. Loose, B.J Ackerson, "Model calculations for the analysis of scattering data from layered structures," J. Chem. Phys. 101, 7211-7220 (1994).