Superluminal Optical Phase Conjugation: Pulse Reshaping and Instability
Optics
2009-10-31 v1 Condensed Matter
Abstract
We theoretically investigate the response of optical phase conjugators to incident probe pulses. In the stable (sub-threshold) operating regime of an optical phase conjugator it is possible to transmit probe pulses with a superluminally advanced peak, whereas conjugate reflection is always subluminal. In the unstable (above-threshold) regime, superluminal response occurs both in reflection and in transmission, at times preceding the onset of exponential growth due to the instability.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/9803015,
title = {Superluminal Optical Phase Conjugation: Pulse Reshaping and Instability},
author = {M. Blaauboer and A. G. Kofman and A. E. Kozhekin and G. Kurizki and D. Lenstra and A. Lodder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9803015},
year = {2009}
}
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9 pages, 6 figures, RevTex, to appear in Phys. Rev. A