DYNAMIC CONTROL OF THE SPATIAL MODES IN THE EXTERNAL RESONATOR OF A SEMILINEAR PHASE-CONJUGATE MIRROR

abstract

• We describe a technique that causes the radiation within the external resonator of a self-starting, semilinear phase-conjugate mirror to collapse into a single spatial mode. We have developed a model based on competition between gratings in one interaction volume to explain the observed dynamic behavior. The model shows that, once the system reaches the steady state, two gratings, whose amplitudes vary throughout space in proportion to each other, form. As a result, we can obtain analytic solutions for the steady state by using an interpretation of four-wave mixing in terms of two-wave mixing. This interpretation can be used in both the transmission and the reflection geometries for real or complex coupling with no absorption. 1993 Optical Society of America.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

• JAATINEN, E., KROLIKOWSKI, W., & LUTHERDAVIES, B.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• JAATINEN, E||KROLIKOWSKI, W||LUTHERDAVIES, B

publication date

• May 1993

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4008 Electrical Engineering
• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics
• 5108 Quantum Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/JOSAB.10.000933

start page

• 933

end page

• 940

volume

• 10

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/josab.10.000933