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About: Phase conjugation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3694 publications have been published within this topic receiving 49099 citations.


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TL;DR: A theory of near-resonant four-wave mixing induced by broad-bandwidth chaotic fields in a medium composed of two-level atoms is developed and an analytic expression for the frequency spectrum of the signal wave is derived.
Abstract: We develop a theory of near-resonant four-wave mixing induced by broad-bandwidth chaotic fields in a medium composed of two-level atoms. By solving the equations of motion for the elements of the atomic density matrix using an appropriate decorrelation approximation, we derive an analytic expression for the frequency spectrum of the signal wave for the case of the bandwidth of the fluctuations of the pump field exceeding the other relaxation rates in the problem. The probe wave is considered weak and of arbitrary bandwidth. The theory is valid for pump intensities up to and exceeding the bandwidth-dependent saturation value

15 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a single-rod neodymium amplifier with 140 W average output power and nearly diffraction-limited beam is described, and the beam quality can be significantly improved using phase-conjugating mirrors based on stimulated Brillouin scattering.
Abstract: For pumping XUV plasma light sources with solid-state lasers and also for micromaterial processing, high beam quality and output power as well as simplicity of the pump lasers are crucial. The beam quality of high-power solid-state lasers can be significantly improved using phase-conjugating mirrors based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). Hence, SBS phase conjugation may prove one of the key technologies in this field. We describe a single-rod neodymium amplifier with 140 W average output power and nearly diffraction-limited beam. Because of automatic compensation of the thermal lensing by SBS phase conjugation, the output power can be tuned without changing the beam profile.

15 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a theoretical treatment of four-wave mixing in a Brillouin-active medium for the case in which the pump waves differ in frequency by approximately twice the frequency shift of the medium and the probe-wave frequency is approximately the arithmetic mean of the frequencies of the two pump waves.
Abstract: We present a theoretical treatment of four-wave mixing (FWM) in a Brillouin-active medium for the case in which the pump waves differ in frequency by approximately twice the Brillouin frequency shift of the medium and in which the probe-wave frequency is approximately the arithmetic mean of the frequencies of the two pump waves. Under these conditions, the conjugate wave produced by the FWM process has the desirable property of being at the same frequency as the probe. We derive the coupled amplitude equations describing this interaction. We solve these equations analytically in the limit of negligible pump depletion and find that large phase conjugate reflectivities are readily achievable. The coupled amplitude equations are solved numerically for the general case, and it is found that large power transfer from the pumps to the output wave is possible. The output wave is shown to be a nearly perfect phase conjugate of the probe wave, even far into the regime where pump depletion effects are important. Our formalism predicts the existence of a parametric instability in the propagation of the pump waves, but good performance is predicted before the onset of this instability.

15 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the phase control of the switch between bright and dark states in the transmitted probe, four-wave mixing (FWM) and fluorescence signals in a four-level ǫ85Rb atomic system was investigated.
Abstract: We first investigate the phase control of the switch between bright and dark states in the transmitted probe, four-wave mixing (FWM) and fluorescence signals in a four-level 85Rb atomic system. With the relative phase modulated from 0 to −π, pure dark state in the FWM and fluorescence channels can be switched to pure bright state, corresponding to the switch from electromagnetically induced transparency to electromagnetically induced absorption. Meanwhile, the results could be obtained in solid crystals. Such phase controlled switch could have potential applications in optical communication and quantum information processing.

15 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20237
202214
202125
202049
201948
201853