Feedback method of the noise suppression in wave-mixing amplifiers based on non-linear materials with photorefractive response in a reflection grating configuration

In the photorefractive wave-mixing system, fluctuation in the signal beam intensity of the photorefractive output with a reflection grating has been analyzed by employing pump feedback method. In this method, fluctuations of the photorefractive wave-mixing process not only induce the intensity fluctuation of the mixing waves but also induce phase fluctuation of the mixing waves. Thus, the phase of the pump and signal beams at the output surface fluctuates in time around a mean value. Using such a positive feedback method of a pump beams, the relative fluctuation in the photorefractive output signal beam intensity with respect to its mean intensity can be minimized significantly without reducing its mean intensity. The factors that control the fluctuation in the signal beam intensity, such as the phase fluctuation of the output pump beam, absorption strength of the material and the feedback reflectivity of the cavity mirrors, on the relative fluctuation of the output signal intensity in the photorefractive wave-mixing systems have been studied in detail. It has been found that the fluctuation of the output signal intensity relative to its mean intensity in the photorefractive wave-mixing system can be suppressed to larger extent by taking lower value of feedback reflectivity of the cavity mirrors which could exist at a higher value of absorption strength of the photorefractive materials.     

Gray photorefractive polymeric optical spatial solitons

We show that gray spatial optical solitons are possible in biased photorefractive polymers under steady-state conditions. We find that for a given material parameter the absolute value of a gray photorefractive polymeric soliton's phase decreases with an increase in the beam's grayness, whereas it increases with the material parameter for a given beam's grayness and that the full width half maximum (FWHM) of the gray soliton beam's intensity increases with the beam's grayness when the normalized background intensity and the material parameter are fixed and decreases with an increase in the normalized background intensity when the material parameter is fixed. On the other hand, we also show that N coupled beam evolution equations in biased photorefractive polymers can exhibit multicomponent gray solitons. These multicomponent gray solitons can be obtained provided that the N coupled beams share the same polarization, wavelength, and are incoherent with one another. The characteristics and stability properties of these multicomponent gray solitons are also discussed in detail.     

Temperature effect on the evolution and stability of rigid screening spatial soliton in biased photorefractive crystal

Based on the temperature dependence of two-wave mixing, temperature effects on the dynamical evolution and stability of rigid screening (RS) bright solitons in a photorefractive dissipative system based on two-wave mixing have been investigated numerically. Our results indicate that the stability of bright RS solitons depends strongly on the crystal temperature. The RS solitons are stable to small temperature perturbations. They will not evolve into stable rigid screening solitons, however, and their intensity and width vary with the propagation distance if the temperature deviation is large enough. The potential applications of the temperature properties of these RS solitons in optical attenuators or repeaters are discussed.     

光折变晶体中双光束耦合的解析解

光折变晶体中二波耦合过程也是全息记录的过程,本文将描述二波耦合的耦合波方程与描述光折变全息的Kukhtarev方程联立,基于Moharam的场函数,以光强调制度为主要变量,求得了适用于任意的干涉光强调制度及任意常量光激发效率下的耦合的两束光波在稳态时的解,进而得出热激发对光波耦合的影响。     

Measurement of vibration with Young's fringe modulated speckle patterns in a photorefractive correlator

A technique has been proposed to analyze small in-plane component of vibrations by measuring the fringe shift, and analysing the correlation output of captured vibrating Young's fringes with a photorefractive correlator. Fringes are formed due to interference between the reconstructed speckled beam recorded for stationary object beam, and vibrated speckled beam transmitting through a BaTiO₃ crystal after introducing a small shift in the diffuser position. The correlation peak intensity is affected due to mismatch of vibrations between two piezo-mirrors in the object beam. High correlation output gives an indication of the frequency matching of known reference and unknown vibrations, thus giving information on the frequency of vibration. Vibration amplitudes of the order of a wavelength of light have been measured by counting the number of fringes passing past a line in the observation plane.     

光折变聚合物材料的研究进展

本综述了光折变聚合物材料的发展历史和现状。概括出了这种新型光折变材料的发展思路,并汇总了各种类型材料的光折变特性参数。     

温度对串联光折变晶体回路中高斯光束传播特性的影响

研究了温度对串联光折变晶体回路中高斯光束传播特性的影响.假设一束暗孤子光束和一束高斯光束分别入射到回路的两块晶体上,利用数值计算方法分析了改变暗孤子所在的晶体温度对高斯光束在另外一块晶体中传播特性的影响.结果表明,调节暗孤子的晶体温度能够影响另一块晶体中高斯光束的传播特性,可以决定高斯光束在晶体中是否能够演化为稳定传播的明孤子波.     

利用预置光栅的脉冲信号光自泵浦相位共轭特性研究

针对光折变晶体响应慢的问题,提出了一种预置光栅技术,该预置光栅可由另外的独立预置光源产生.通过对采用预置光栅的光折变晶体自泵浦相位共轭特性及其物理机制进行的实验研究证实,采用预置光栅技术可以大大缩短低重复频率、窄脉冲信号光的光折变自泵浦相位共轭的响应时间,因此对于低重复频率、窄脉冲光的自泵浦相位共轭应用有重要的实用价值.     

有分压电阻和e偏振非相干背景光辐照的光折变晶体中非相干耦合空间孤子对

为了得到光折变晶体中非相干耦合空间孤子对统一理论的结果,基于单光子光折变空间光孤子的基本理论模型,建立了稳态条件下有分压电阻和e偏振非相干均匀背景光辐照的单光子光伏光折变晶体中非相干耦合空间孤子对理论. 研究表明:这种孤子对是由两束偏振方向和波长都相同的互不相干光束耦合形成的, 孤子对两光束都能在晶体中稳定传播;当分压电阻、e偏振背景光、外加电场和光伏场取不同值时, 可获得14种光折变非相干耦合空间孤子对. 本文的结果对完善和充实光折变空间孤子理论体系有重要意义.     

Effects of the induced birefringence in photorefractive crystals on speckle optical vortices

In this work, we show that it is possible to change the properties of an optical vortex formed in a speckle pattern by the control of an external electric field applied to a sillenite-type photorefractive material in a non-holographic configuration. To show it, a scheme that allows the recovering of both, the polarization state and the phase distribution of an optical field was implemented. Changes in the polarization state of the light in the neighborhood of the vortex were observed with the application of an external electric field. Likewise, changes in the phase structure around the vortex and displacements of the vortices themselves were measured. These displacements have a fairly linear dependence on the applied field to the photorefractive crystal. Experimental results are qualitatively explained with the theoretical treatment of non-holographic recording in photorefractive crystals.