Title :
Basic considerations of four-wave mixing and dynamic gratings
Author_Institution :
Department of Physics, University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
fDate :
8/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The basic principles of four-wave mixing are reviewed. Emphasis is on the coupling between light waves and material excitational waves. Only cases where material excitations are excited by optical mixing of input waves are considered. The material excitations appear in the form of a dynamic grating that would coherently scatter the incoming radiation. Probing of the dynamic grating allows the deduction of information about the material excitations.
Keywords :
Optical diffraction gratings; Optical mixers; Atomic measurements; Four-wave mixing; Gratings; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical materials; Optical mixing; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical variables control;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JQE.1986.1073131
