Four-wave mixing on thermal and resonant nonlinearities with feedback for object and signal waves

Abstract

Background. The need to create highly efficient four-wave radiation converters in order to use them in adaptive optics systems, for real-time processing of complex spatio-temporal fields, in interferometry, quantum cryptography, etc. requires along with the use of traditional methods to increase the efficiency of such converters by increasing the interaction length, radiation power density, effective value of the nonlinear susceptibility of the development of new methods. One of these methods is a method based on the imposition of feedback on one or more interacting waves. Aim. The influence of feedback on the amplitude reflection coefficient of the degenerate four-wave radiation converter on thermal and resonant nonlinearities has been considered. Methods. The amplitude reflection coefficient of a degenerate four-wave radiation converter on thermal and resonant nonlinearities in the presence of feedback for both object and signal waves has been analyzed by a numerical method based on the multiple passage of the signal and object waves of the nonlinear layer in the ring resonator. Results. It was shown, that the difference in the reflection coefficients in the presence and absence of feedback for both object and signal waves increase monotonically with a growth in the pumping waves intensity and does not depend on the parameter characterizing the relationship between thermal and resonant nonlinearities at the approximation of a small reflection coefficient. Conclusion. The range of values of the absorption coefficient in which the imposition of feedback for both object and signal waves leads to an increase in the efficiency of the four-wave radiation converter has been established.

Keywords

• four-wave converter
• feedback
• thermal nonlinearity
• resonant nonlinearity