Loop-type four-wave-mixing phase conjugate mirror with a nonreciprocal amplifier

Nikolay A. Romanov; Dmitri A. Goryachkin; Irina M. Kozlovskaya; Andrey Yu. Rodionov; Victor V. Sergeev; Vladimir E. Sherstobitov

doi:10.1117/12.308352

19 May 1998 Loop-type four-wave-mixing phase conjugate mirror with a nonreciprocal amplifier

Nikolay A. Romanov, Dmitri A. Goryachkin, Irina M. Kozlovskaya, Andrey Yu. Rodionov, Victor V. Sergeev, Vladimir E. Sherstobitov

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Proceedings Volume 3263, Nonlinear Optical Engineering; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.308352
Event: Optoelectronics and High-Power Lasers and Applications, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We propose a modified scheme of a four-wave-mixing phase- conjugate mirror with the feedback comprising a nonreciprocal Brillouin amplifier placed inside the feedback loop. A simulation of the loop scheme showed the unidirectional oscillation of a phase-conjugate wave to be feasible in the optimum mode of operation of the loop-type PC mirror when the energy of a probe wave at the SBS amplifier input is more than an order of magnitude lower than the SBS threshold. Our experiments demonstrated that the proposed scheme of the loop-type PC mirror ensured pulse-to-pulse stable unidirectional oscillation of a phase- conjugated wave. The characteristics of the output radiation are studied and the high phase conjugation fidelity is demonstrated. The problems arising in scaling up the PC mirrors of such a type are considered.

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Nikolay A. Romanov, Dmitri A. Goryachkin, Irina M. Kozlovskaya, Andrey Yu. Rodionov, Victor V. Sergeev, and Vladimir E. Sherstobitov "Loop-type four-wave-mixing phase conjugate mirror with a nonreciprocal amplifier", Proc. SPIE 3263, Nonlinear Optical Engineering, (19 May 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.308352

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