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Polarization-Dependent Light-Gated Phase Conjugation in Methyl-Orange Doped Polymer Film

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We have investigated the polarization state of a gated phase conjugate beam using a methyl-orange doped poly-vinyl alcohol (MO/PVA) film in 16 different combinations of linear and circular polarization states of a probe beam and pump beams. The experimental results agree with the theoretical prediction based on the Jones matrix method. Of the third-order nonlinear susceptibility tensors Xijkl of the MO/PVA film, the X1221 at the 647 nm wavelength in degenerate four-wave mixing under exposure of a gating 515 nm light takes a very small value compared with X1111 and X1122. On the other hand, in the configuration of a probe beam and pump beams having linearly crossed polarizations and without gating light, the MO/PVA film generates a strong linearly polarized PC beam, so that X1221 takes a large value at 515 nm.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto, Muroran, 050-8585, Japan

    Tsutomu Sato, Kazuo Nakagawa & Hirofumi Fujiwara

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Sato, T., Nakagawa, K. & Fujiwara, H. Polarization-Dependent Light-Gated Phase Conjugation in Methyl-Orange Doped Polymer Film. OPT REV 9, 154–158 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-002-0154-5

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