Title :
Experimental rocking of a laser-like system: from vortices to phase domains
Author :
Taranenko, V.B. ; Esteban-Martin, A. ; Roldan, E. ; De Valcarcel, G.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. d´´Opt., Valencia Univ., Spain
Abstract :
This paper reports the first experimental observation of rocking in a laser-like system, namely a single-longitudinal mode two-wave-mixing photorefractive optical oscillator of large Fresnel number and tunable resonance. Rocking is able to transform the originally phase invariant system into a phase-locked system with two bistable opposite phases, which leads to the replacement of vortices in the free running device by phase domains in the rocked configuration.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical bistability; optical parametric oscillators; optical vortices; photorefractive effect; bistable opposite phases; free running device; large Fresnel number; laser-like system; phase domains; phase invariant system; phase-locked system; photorefractive optical oscillator; rocking beam; single-longitudinal mode; tunable resonance; two-wave-mixing; vortices; Laser modes; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical vortices; Oscillators; Photorefractive effect; Resonance; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8973-5
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567322
