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Phase conjugation
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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03 Apr 1995TL;DR: In this article, the combination of a quarter-wave plate, a Faraday rotator and a mirror is used to compensate for birefringence in a solid-state amplifier.
Abstract: Apparatus, and a related method, for compensating for birefringence introduced in a birefringent medium, such as a solid-state amplifier. The invention includes the combination of a quarter-wave plate, a Faraday rotator and a mirror, which may be a phase conjugation cell. Light passing through the quarter-wave plate is substantially circularly polarized, which is advantageous if the mirror is a phase conjugation cell using stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). A second pass through the quarter-wave plate provides a linearly polarized beam of which the polarization angle is orthogonally related to that of the original beam, to facilitate out-coupling of energy from the apparatus. The Faraday rotator effects a total polarization angle rotation of 90° in two passes and helps compensate for birefringence when the beam is passed through the birefringent medium again on the return pass. The combination of the quarter-wave plate and the Faraday rotator provides better birefringence cancellation than either element acting alone.
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03 Mar 2011TL;DR: An optical phase conjugator that can be deployed within a long-haul fiber-optic link of an optical WDM system to improve the system's tolerance to intra-and inter-channel nonlinear effects is presented in this paper.
Abstract: An optical phase conjugator that can be deployed within a long-haul fiber-optic link of an optical WDM system to improve the system's tolerance to intra- and inter-channel nonlinear effects. In one embodiment, the optical phase conjugator has a digital signal processor configured to perform, in the digital electrical domain, a phase-conjugation transformation for various components of a WDM signal so that certain signal distortions imposed on that signal in the front portion of the fiber-optic link are reduced in the back portion of the link. Advantageously, the optical phase conjugator is flexibly configurable to employ an input-to-output carrier-frequency-mapping configuration that is most beneficial under particular operating conditions. mapping configuration that is most beneficial under particular operating conditions.
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26 Oct 2005TL;DR: In this article, a closed loop correction of phase aberrations is proposed, including the steps of directing an incoming light beam into a black fringe wavefront sensor via an adaptive optical device (AOD) and calculating phase errors based upon the tagged ramp voltages and modulator scaling.
Abstract: A method of performing closed loop correction of phase aberrations, including the steps of directing an incoming light beam into a black fringe wavefront sensor via an adaptive optical device (“AOD”), dividing the incoming light beam into measurement and reference beams, altering the path length of the measurement beam and the location of the black fringe by modulating a ramp voltage of a modulator, combining the measurement and reference beams into a common output beam, detecting the black fringe in the common output beam using detectors mapped to the AOD, storing, as tagged ramp voltages, a corresponding ramp voltage for each detector when it detects black fringe, calculating phase errors based upon the tagged ramp voltages and modulator scaling, calculating adaptive optics correction voltages based upon the phase errors, transmitting and applying the correction voltages to the AOD to correct phase aberrations of the incoming light beam via phase conjugation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, thermal induced phase conjugation by degenerate four-wave mixing in solutions of Rhodamine 6G in ethanol in the weak absorption region, low-reflectivity regime, and nonosecond time domain is reported.
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TL;DR: In this article, a polarization-division Sagnac interferometer incorporating Faraday rotators is proposed to realize direct observation of nonlinear phase shifts induced by cross-phase modulation.
Abstract: We propose an apparatus that realizes direct observation of nonlinear phase shifts induced by cross-phase modulation. The apparatus is based on a polarization-division Sagnac interferometer incorporating Faraday rotators, which, in principle, enables phase robustness, flexibility, and lossless operation. Here, we present the measurement of nonlinear phase shifts in a photonic crystal fiber, demonstrating the advantage of our system in its application to waveguide-type Kerr media. This apparatus is applicable to lossless all-optical phase gates and switches.
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