Performance of a continuous-wave self-adaptive gain-grating laser
Performance of a continuous-wave self-adaptive gain-grating laser
Experimental and theoretical studies have shown that three-dimensional gain gratings, optically written in a saturable laser amplifier, can act as very efficient (>1000%) diffractive optical elements and, in a four-wave mixing (FWM) geometry, can produce extremely high phase-conjugate reflectivity. A further development in the use of gain gratings for phase conjugation has been the employment of loop schemes to obtain self-pumped phase conjugation (SPPC) with only one input beam required. In reality, these devices are actually a novel type of (holographic) laser where the feedback is provided by diffraction from an externally-written gain-grating hologram.
Crofts, G.J.
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Trew, M.
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Damzen, M.J.
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Eason, R.W.
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1999
Crofts, G.J.
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Trew, M.
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Damzen, M.J.
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Eason, R.W.
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Crofts, G.J., Trew, M., Damzen, M.J. and Eason, R.W.
(1999)
Performance of a continuous-wave self-adaptive gain-grating laser.
In Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO '99).
IEEE..
(doi:10.1109/CLEO.1999.834179).
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Abstract
Experimental and theoretical studies have shown that three-dimensional gain gratings, optically written in a saturable laser amplifier, can act as very efficient (>1000%) diffractive optical elements and, in a four-wave mixing (FWM) geometry, can produce extremely high phase-conjugate reflectivity. A further development in the use of gain gratings for phase conjugation has been the employment of loop schemes to obtain self-pumped phase conjugation (SPPC) with only one input beam required. In reality, these devices are actually a novel type of (holographic) laser where the feedback is provided by diffraction from an externally-written gain-grating hologram.
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Published date: 1999
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CLEO '99, Baltimore, City of, United States, 1999-05-23 - 1999-05-28
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R.W. Eason
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