Polarization multiwave mixing in saturable absorbers

Omar Ormachea; Alexei L. Tolstik

doi:10.1117/12.677888

14 June 2006 Polarization multiwave mixing in saturable absorbers

Omar Ormachea, Alexei L. Tolstik

Proceedings Volume 6259, ICONO 2005: Nonlinear Optical Phenomena; 62590Q (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.677888
Event: ICONO 2005, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Abstract

This work presents experimental studies into the energy efficiency of multiwave mixing in complex molecular media exhibiting higher order nonlinearities in two cases: volume holograms in the standard geometry of degenerate four-wave mixing and self-diffraction of the recording waves from thin dynamic gratings. The use of different combinations of mutually aligning polarizations for interacting waves enables one to determine the contribution into the interaction efficiency of various dynamic gratings and nonlinearity mechanisms. The role of polarization gratings resultant from spatial modulation of the light-field polarization state on orthogonal polarization of the hologram recording waves is established. Comparisons between the contributions of the polarization and "normal" gratings recorded by identically polarized light beams into the process of multiwave mixing demonstrate that the ratio of these contributions is dependent on the intensity of interacting waves. By variations in the propagation direction of a reading wave a change from four- to six-, eight- and ten-wave mixing may be realized.

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Omar Ormachea and Alexei L. Tolstik "Polarization multiwave mixing in saturable absorbers", Proc. SPIE 6259, ICONO 2005: Nonlinear Optical Phenomena, 62590Q (14 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.677888

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