Abstract

It is shown that the reflection from a phase-conjugate mirror does not exhibit a Doppler shift in frequency. The physical basis for this phenomenon is discussed, and it has been verified experimentally by using four-wave mixing with photorefractive Bi₁₂SiO₂₀ (BSO) in a phase-conjugate Michelson interferometer. The same measurement is also used to determine the response time of the nonlinear material to moving spatial holograms. This response time is 7.3 msec in BSO.

© 1984 Optical Society of America

Amplified phase-conjugate beam reflection by four-wave mixing with photorefractive Bi₁₂SiO₂₀ crystals

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Rotational Doppler shift of a phase-conjugated photon

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