Nonlinear optics

Polarization properties of four-wave optical phase conjugation under continuous conditions

A. L. Vysotin, I. Tkhek-De, O. P. Podavalova


Abstract: Experimental and theoretical investigations were made of the polarization characteristics of a four-wave phase-conjugate mirror utilizing the 3S_1/2–3P_3/2 transition in sodium atoms and different combinations of linearly and circularly polarized external waves. A good agreement was established between the experimental results and a theory developed allowing for the optical transfer of atoms between magnetic sublevels and for a residual Doppler broadening due to the noncollinearity of the wave vectors of the interacting waves.

UDC: 535.375.5

PACS: 42.65.Hw, 42.79.Bh, 42.65.An, 42.50.Hz, 32.80.-t

Received: 22.01.1987
Revised: 15.05.1987

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1988, 18:7, 878–884

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