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Fourier synthesization of optical pulses and “polar” light

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It is shown that the direct Fourier synthesization of light beams allows one to create polarity-asymmetric waves, which are able, in the process of nonlinear interaction with a medium, to break its inversion symmetry. As a result, these “polar” waves may show the effect of optical rectification in nonlinear centrosymmetric media by generating light-induced dc electric polarization. At the same time, waves of this type, due to their unusual symmetry properties, can be used for detecting the direction and sign of a dc electric field applied to the medium. The prospects of application of polar waves to data recording and processing are discussed.

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  1. All-Russia Research Center “Vavilov State Optical Institute”, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    V. S. Zapasskiĭ & E. B. Aleksandrov

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Translated from Optika i Spektroskopiya, Vol. 92, No. 5, 2002, pp. 792–796.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Zapasskiĭ Aleksandrov.

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Zapasskiĭ, V.S., Aleksandrov, E.B. Fourier synthesization of optical pulses and “polar” light. Opt. Spectrosc. 92, 727–731 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1481139

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