Fluctuations in the phase-conjugate signal generated via degenerate four-wave mixing

Prem Kumar; Jeffrey H. Shapiro; Roy S. Bondurant

doi:10.1016/0030-4018(84)90344-4

Fluctuations in the phase-conjugate signal generated via degenerate four-wave mixing

Prem Kumar^*, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Roy S. Bondurant

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The excess fluctuations of the phase-conjugate (PC) signal generated via pulsed degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) in sodium vapor are investigated. Various dye-laser oscillator and amplifier combinations are employed to trace the sources of these fluctuations. For DFWM driven by an externally-stabilized cw dye-laser oscillator amplified with a dye system pumped by the smoothed pulses of a Nd:YAG laser, the PC excess fluctuations are very highly correlated with the energy fluctuations of the input amplified dye-laser pulses. Thus, input-pulse selection on the basis of energy alone permits observation of the quantum-mechanical fluctuations of the PC signal.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	183-188
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	50
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4018(84)90344-4
State	Published - Jun 1 1984

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