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Papers Theory and Applications of Four-Wwe Mixing in Photorefractive Media 12 IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUMELECTRONICS, VOL.NO. QE-20, 1, JANUARY 1984 Papers Theory and Applications of Four-Wwe Mixing in Photorefractive Media MARK CRONIN-GOLOMB, BARUCH FISCHER, JEFFREY 0. WHITE, AND AMNON YARIV, FELLOW, IEEE (Invited Paper) Abstract-The development of a theory of four-wave mixing in photo- In the mid 1970’s the field of phase conjugate optics [35] refractive crystals is described. This theory is solved in the undepleted began to prosper because of potential applicationsin aberration pumpsapproximation with linear absorptionand without using the correction. The main problem to be faced was and still is the undepletedpumps approximation for negligibleabsorption. Both the transmission and reflectiongratings are treated individually. The results development of fastmedia with large nonlinearities. While are used to analyze several photorefractive phase conjugate mirrors, phase conjugationby four-wave mixing is oftenthought of yielding reflectivities and thresholds. The useof photorefractive crystals interms of nonlinearoptical susceptibilities, theformal as optical distortion correction elements and experimental demonstra- analogy with real-time holography [36] has made it clear that tions of several of the passive phase conjugate mirrors are described. PR materials could beused effectively in phase conjugation. 1. INTRODUCTION As a result, a whole new branch in phase conjugate optics has HROUGH therecent years’ boom innonlinear optical beendeveloped E371 -[40]. High reflectivityphase conjuga- T phase conjugation, photorefractive (PR) materials such as tion with low-power lasers has become an easy task. Feinberg LiNb03, Bi12Sizo O3 (BSO), BaTi03, and Sr, - xBa, Nb2 O6 hasdemonstrated a resonator using a PR phase conjugate (SBN) have been assuming ever increasing prominence due to mirror [41], andmany new nonlinearoptical deviceshave their unique capability for displaying strong nonlinear effects been demonstrated including ring oscillators by White et al. with milliwattbeams over theentire visible spectrumand [42] and passive phase conjugate mirrors (PPCM’s) by Cronin- beyond. Golomb et al. [43]-[45], Feinberg [46], and Odulovand Inthe late 1960’s it was noticedthat certain frequency Soskin [47]. doubling crystals were subject to “optical damage” character- Among the PR materials that we have used so far, we find ized by degraded phase matching due to light induced changes BaTi03 (first used in four-wave mixing by Feinberg et al. 1321 ) in refractive index [ 11 - [3] . These index variations persisted and SBN (first used in four-wave mixing by Fischer et al. [48] ) in the dark, sometimes for many months, and could be erased most suited to experiments where large coupling strengths are byflooding the crystalwith uniform illumination. Thatthe required since they havevery large electrooptic coefficients. effect could actually be put to use was noticed by those inter- The main disadvantage of these materials is their slow response ested in real-time volume holography who thought to use PR times, typically about 1011 s where I is the total intensity of materials as very denseoptical memories (~10”bitslcm’) the interacting beams in mW/mm2. One main research direc- andfor real-time optical information processing [4] - [21]. tion in the future is going to be optimizationof this time; Concurrent theoretical developments involved both investiga- muchwork has alreadybeen done with LiNbO, where the tion of a) the physical mechanism whereby light intensity was use of reduced iron impurities seems to be effective [49]. converted to refractive index variations and b) the optical non- In this paper we will describe the more recent developments linearities involved inthe beamcoupling due tothe self- in the useof PR materials in phase conjugationand other developinghologram [22]-[34]. While notrue third-order applications of nonlinear optics. Section I1 details the coupling constitutive nonlinearity was involved, the diffraction of two mechanism for two- and four-wave mixing in PR materials. We beams into each other by the very grating they wrote resulted present the four-coupled wave equations and solve them in the in strong third-order interactions. The physics of the PR effect undepletedpumps and single gratingapproximations. The is suchthat the index grating is often 7r/2 out of phase in effects on phase conjugation of the spatial phase shift between space with the interference pattern and onebeam is coherently the indexgrating andthe light interference pattern arediscussed. amplified at the expense of the other. The implications for In Section 111 we obtain solutions in which no use is made of coherent optical processing are clear. the undepleted pumps approximation. We describe the multi- stability that results from considering the full nonlinear nature Manuscript received June 27, 1983; revised September 7, 1983. This of the problem. In Section IV we explain the application of work was supported by the U.S. Air Force Officeof Scientific Research, the U.S. ArmyResearch Office, Durham, NC, and Rockwell Interna- the theory to the new PPCM’s and show the results of experi- tional. mentaldemonstrations of these devices. We also introduce M. CroninGolomb, J. 0. White, and A. Yariv are with the California novel interpretationsof PR crystalsas distortioncorrecting Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125. B. Fischer is with the Department of ElectricalEngineering,Technion, elements in optical systems and circuits and as double phase Haifa. Israel. conjugate mirrors. Section V is a summary. 0018-9197/84/0100-0012$01.000 1984 IEEE CRONIN-GOLOMB et al.: FOUR-WAVE MIXING IN PHOTOREFRACTIVE MEDIA 13 11. COUPLEDWAVE EQUATIONSAND UNDEPLETEDPUMPS PHASE CONJUGATE,,' A, '8 APPROXIMATIONTHEORY Microscopic theories of the photorefractive effect generally treat photoionization of charge carriers from impurity levels. Thesecarriers are subject to driftand diffusion in the spa- tially varying intensity of the recording beams and the elec- tric fieldassociated with the resultant spacecharge operates throughthe electrooptic effect to modulate the index of refraction.This effect is nonlocal,with one manifestation PROBE // being that the indexgrating is not inphase with the interference / A4 pattern.For thisreason, phase conjugation by degenerate Fig. 1. Four-wavemixing arrangement appropriate to phaseconjuga- four-wave mixing in PR crystals is different in kind than phase tion showing the pump beams (solid) and probe and phase conjugate beams (dashed), as well as the relative orientation of the c-axis of the conjugation in other mediaand we cannot characterize the crystal. medium response by a simple constitutive third-order nonlinear constant x(3). The derivation of the coupled wave equations withthe associatedeffective third-order nonlinearities is as beams 1 and 4 and also that of beams2 and 3. These two follows. pairs of waves are characterized by the same constant because The basic interaction geometry is illustrated in Fig. 1. Four k4- kl =k2 - k3. waves of equal frequency w and, for simplicity, of the same The expressions for these various constants are obtained by polarization are propagating through the PR medium. Let the solving the specific physical process responsible for the holo- electric field amplitude associated with the jthbeam be gram formation. Expressions for nI and cpI, forexample, derived from a typical rate equation model are [31] Ej(r, t)=Ai(r) exp [i(ki. r - at)]+ C.C. (2.1) We solve the problem in steady state so that the Ai may be taken to be timeindependent. The propagation directions come in two oppositely directed pairs, kl = - k2 and k3 = - k4, whereas the relative direction of kl and k4 is arbitrary. It is the fringes in the time independent part of the light intensity that generate the hologram, whose fringes have the where no is the ordinary refractive index, reffis the relevant same periodicity as the light interference pattern. In general, electrooptic coefficient, E,, is a superimposed spatially uniform the holographic fringes of refractive index will have a spatial electricfield, either applied orintrinsic (due, eg, to the phase shift with respect to the interference pattern, so we can photovoltaic effect [7] ) directed along kI, and Ed and Ep are write the fundamental components of the intensity induced electric fields characteristic of diffusion and maximum space grating as charge, respectively. Ed = kBTkI/e and Ep = epd/(ekI) where pd is the density of traps in the material, kB is Boltzmann's n1eiVI @?A4 "A&) n=no+- exp (ikI . r) + C.C. constant, T is the temperature, e is the electron charge, e is 2 IO the permittivity of the material and kI = IkI 1. The electrooptic coefficient is given by = eii(rijkkIk) Ejj/(kIninh) (2.6a) where nh is ne or no depending on whether the mixing beams nIIIeipIII (Al~;) + exp (ikIII r) t C.C. are ofextraordinary or ordinary polarization. For crystals 2 IO of the point group 4 mm such as SBN and BaTi03, the non- zero electrooptic coefficients and their conventional contracted - - notations are Y,,, Y~~,rxxz = ryVz = rI3, and ryZy= r,,, = ~42.Equation (2.6a) reduces to where Yeff = ~13sin [(a+ 0)/21 (2.6b) 4 ro = zi for mixing beams of ordinary polarization and j= 1 reff = {nzr33 sin a sin 0 + 2nzni~4~cos2 [(a t p)/2] with Ii the intensity [Ail2of beam j. Through this normaliza- + n$v13cos a cos sin [(a+ 0)/2] /(nen2) (2.6~) tion by 1, we anticipate that the coupling strengths in the PR 0) effect are approximatelyindependent of total intensity, in for mixing beams of extraordinary polarization where a and p directcontrast with four-wavemixing via nonlinearpolariz- are the angles of the pump beams and the probe and phase abilities. The phases rpI, pII, pIII,and qIV are real and nI, nII, conjugate beams with respect to the optic axis of the crystal nIII, and nIv are real and positive. kI = k4 - kl = k2 - k3, as shownin Fig.1. The rii are theelectrooptic coefficients kII = kl - k3 = k4 :kz, kIII = 2kl and kIv = 2k4. The com- and no and ne are the ordinary and extraordinary refractive plex constant nIezvl as an example, characterizes the spatial indexes, respectively.
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