Self-deflection of steady-state bright spatial solitons in biased centrosymmetric photorefractive crystals

The effects of diffusion on self-deflection of steady-state bright spatial solitons in biased centrosymmetric photorefractive crystals are investigated systematically by both numerical and perturbation methods. The results show that the soliton propagates along a parabolic trajectory and the central spatial frequency component shifts linearly with the propagation distance. Both the deflection effects vary cubically with applied external bias field.     

Analysis of photorefractive volume holographic lenses with different recording and read-out wavelengths

The photorefractive volume holographic lenses for converting a plane wave to a lateral-spread spherical wave with different recording and reconstructing wavelength has been studied. Using the coupled-wave theory, the half-analytical solutions for the amplitudes of the space harmonics of the field inside the transmission geometry are presented. The values of the off-Bragg parameter at the reconstructed process and the diffracted beam's amplitude distribution are analyzed. In addition, the dependences of diffraction properties on the focal length of recording spherical wave and on the geometrical dimensions of the grating are discussed. Furthermore, the focusing properties of this photorefractive holographic lens are analyzed.     

Polymeric photorefractive surface waves

We theoretically studied photorefractive surface waves supported by polymers with orientationally enhanced photorefractive effect. We find that the orientational enhancement and the dependency of the quantum efficiency of generating mobile holes on the electric field make the diffusion nonlinearity in photorefractive polymers dependent not on only the variation of light intensity but also on external electric field, which is very different from the external electric field independent diffusion nonlinearity in inorganic photorefractive crystals. Consequently the profile, frequency and especially the penetration depth of polymeric photorefractive surface waves strongly depend on external electric field, which makes it more controllable than that in photorefractive inorganic crystals. The stability of polymeric photorefractive surface waves, the effects of birefringence component and electro-optic component of orientationally enhanced photorefractive nonlinearity on the formation of x or y-polarized polymeric photorefractive surface waves are also discussed.     

Spinning-top dynamics of photorefractive grating

The photorefractive grating generated by two coupled waves produces a rich spatiotemporal dynamics such as those of solitons and chaos. In this paper, the dynamics of grating along with the slow-varying envelope of two coupled waves is studied where the photorefractive-coupling constant is large or more importantly the dynamics is much faster than the photorefractive response time of the material. Under this condition, new solutions of the dynamic grating equations are presented and analytically solved in the form of the Jacobi’s Elliptic functions. The spatiotemporal grating can result in a periodic space-charge field which in turn generates the space charge waves in the periodic case as a result of the spatiotemporal dynamics of the anisotropic two-wave mixing process. The theoretical work of the limiting case is in good agreement with the experimental results using a BaTiO₃ crystal.     

Functional imaging in photorefractive tissue speckle holography

Cellular motion produces highly dynamic speckle in wide-field depth-gated holographic optical coherence imaging. The speckle provides cell scale information such as cell membrane and organelle motion, even though the spatial resolution of the optics is above the cell scale. The statistical properties of dynamic speckle can be used for functional imaging of motile activity at depth within tissue. In this paper we develop a motility metric using time autocorrelation to create a three-dimensional motility map of tissue. The effect of noise and the shimmering showerglass effect in functional optical coherence imaging are evaluated quantitatively, and we demonstrate that meaningful motility information can be extracted from functional imaging using dynamic speckle.     

Effect of the dark soliton crystal temperature on the deflection of the bright soliton in a separate bright–dark screening soliton pair

We investigate theoretically the dark soliton crystal temperature effect on the deflection of the bright one in a bright–dark soliton pair which is formed in a serial non-photovoltaic photorefractive crystal circuit. Our numerical results show that the spatial shift of the bright soliton changes with the temperature of the dark one crystal and varying the temperature of the dark soliton crystal can influence the deflection strongly. The temperature dependence of the deflection process is further studied by perturbation technique and the results are found to be good agreement with that obtained by numerical method. Relevant examples are provided.     

Multiplexing in optical encryption by using an aperture system and a rotating sandwich random phase diffuser in the Fourier plane

In the present paper, we describe multiplexing in optical encryption of two-dimensional images, by using apertures and rotation of one of the constituent phase diffusers of a sandwich phase diffuser in the Fourier plane. The sandwich phase diffuser is made with two random constituent phase-diffusing surfaces sandwiched together. The apertures of different sizes and shapes are made with the help of ‘paint brush’ software. Simulation results are presented showing the effects of size, shape, and orientation of the apertures on the decrypted images obtained via multiplexing techniques. In addition to the results of using aperture systems in encryption and decryption, the results of rotation of one of the constituent phase diffusers in decryption are analyzed and used in multiplexing. Due to the use of aperture systems and the rotation of the constituent phase diffuser, the multiplexing capability of the system in encryption is enhanced along with the enhanced security due to using a sandwich diffuser. To evaluate the reliability of the technique, mean square error between the decrypted and the original image has been calculated.     

微扰变分法对光折变空间孤子相互作用的研究

利用微扰变分法研究了光折变屏蔽孤子的相干相互作用,得出了光折变空间屏蔽孤子在晶体中同相相互作用时发生第一次碰撞的位置和碰撞周期解析表达式,并对孤子同相和反相相互作用的物理机制进行了分析.研究结果表明:当两孤子尾部交叠时就会发生相互作用,相互作用力的大小与孤子的相对强度、相对间距以及晶体外加电场的大小有关.孤子的相对强度越大、相对间距越小以及晶体外加电场越强,孤子间相互作用力越大;相互作用力的性质与初始相位差有关,同相相互吸引,反相相互排斥.     

超短脉冲光通过光折变体光栅衍射及透射光强的瞬时变化特性研究

采用Kogelnik的耦合波理论,研究了超短脉冲光通过光折变体光栅的衍射及透射光强在时域的瞬时变化特性.发现衍射和透射脉冲波形与读出脉冲宽度、光栅周期、光栅厚度及光折变材料的折射率调制大小有密切关系.通过调整这些参量的数值,可以获得需要的脉冲形状.同时还发现衍射和透射脉冲在时间轴上有一定的偏移,偏移量的大小与参量选择有关.