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Phase-conjugate Fizeau interferometer.
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A phase-conjugate interferometer is described that is self-referencing, compact, and insensitive to environmental disturbances, provides twice the sensitivity of conventional interferometers, and produces a direct representation of an incident wave front.Abstract:
We describe a phase-conjugate interferometer that consists of a partially transmitting conventional mirror placed in front of and in close proximity to a phase-conjugate mirror. The interferometer is self-referencing, compact, and insensitive to environmental disturbances, provides twice the sensitivity of conventional (nonphase-conjugate) interferometers, and produces a direct representation of an incident wave front. We have constructed such a device using internally self-pumped phase conjugation in barium titanate and have used the device to characterize the wave front produced by an aberrated optical system.read more
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Laser-diode phase-shifting interferometry with a self-pumped phase-conjugate mirror.
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Self-pumped, continuous-wave phase conjugator using internal reflection
TL;DR: Continuous-wave phase conjugation of an image-bearing beam is demonstrated using a single-domain crystal of BaTiO(3) and nothing else and has a phase-conjugate reflectivity of 30%.
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Lens design fundamentals
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive guide to lens design in traditional and emerging areas of application; it is also suited to advanced undergraduate or graduate course in lens design principles and as a self-learning tutorial and reference for the practitioner.
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Simple, compact, high-performance permanent-magnet Faraday isolator.
TL;DR: The design of a Faraday isolator that uses a short glass rotator rod and produces highly uniform rotation across its clear aperture is presented.
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Interferometry using conjugate-wave generation
TL;DR: In this paper, a self-referencing interferometer based on conjugate-wave generation using three and four-wave mixing is described, and the interferometers are shown to be sensitive to small changes in the phase front.
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Reflection of a linearly polarized plane wave from a lossless stratified mirror in the presence of a phase-conjugate mirror
Ari T. Friberg,Peter D. Drummond +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a phase conjugate mirror was used to analyze the reflection of a linearly polarized electromagnetic plane wave from an ordinary lossless stratified plane mirror in the presence of a phase-conjugate mirror and it was shown that, if the conjugated waves are generated without losses or gains and also without a change in the state of polarization, the specularly reflected wave will be extinguished completely and a phaseconjugated replica of the incident wave will form.