Polarization selective motional holeburning for high efficiency, degenerate optical phase conjugation in rubidium Academic Article

abstract

• We have observed high reflectivity (>40) optical phase conjugation for a low pump intensity (100 mW/mm2), using degenerate four-wave mixing in rubidium vapor. The polarization of the beams were selected such that the diffracting grating was formed in the Zeeman sublevel coherence. We find that only a selected band of atoms moving at non-zero velocities contribute to this process, by forming, in the atom's frame, a non-degenerate double- system. This observation makes it possible to construct a simple, compact, and highly efficient phase conjugator using a semiconductor laser, without any modulators, for many applications, without any concern resulting from frequency mismatch between the probe and the conjugate. 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.

authors

• Hemmer, Philip

published proceedings

• Optics Communications

author list (cited authors)

• Xia, X., Hsiung, D., Bhatia, P. S., Shahriar, M. S., Grove, T. T., & Hemmer, P. R.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Xia, X-W||Hsiung, D||Bhatia, PS||Shahriar, MS||Grove, TT||Hemmer, PR

publication date

• May 2001

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Optics Communications  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/s0030-4018(01)01101-4

start page

• 347

end page

• 351

volume

• 191

issue

• 3-6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0030-4018(01)01101-4