NONLINEAR OPTICS: Polarization properties of four-wave optical phase conjugation under continuous conditions
Abstract
Experimental and theoretical investigations were made of the polarization characteristics of a four-wave phase-conjugate mirror utilizing the 3S1/2-3P3/2 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.
- Publication:
-
Quantum Electronics
- Pub Date:
- July 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1070/QE1988v018n07ABEH012316
- Bibcode:
- 1988QuEle..18..878V