We study the transmission and the reflection of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum through a dielectric multilayer structure containing phase-conjugating interfaces. We show analytically and demonstrate numerically that the phase conjugation at the interfaces results in a characteristic angular and radial pattern of the reflected beam, a fact that can be exploited for the detection a...

BACKGROUND Gold nanoparticles (AuNP) are extensively used as biophysical tools in the area of medicine and technology due to their distinct properties. However, vivid understanding of the consequences of biomolecule-nanomaterial interactions is still lacking. In this context, we explore the affect of conjugation of Gαi1 subunit (of heterotrimeric G-proteins) to AuNP and examine its consequences...

Northrop Grumman reports on a program utilizing Linear Phase Conjugation to compensate for atmospheric induced aberrations that severely limit laser performance. In a program to improve both the beam quality and laser energy delivered to the target, Northrop Grumman has developed a novel aberration compensation technique. This technique, hereafter referred to as Active Tracking System, utilizes...

We investigate theoretically the quantum-noise properties of optical phase conjugation via four-wave mixing of nonclassical signal fields. We show that while the field generated at a phase-conjugate mirror (PCM) can be in a nonclassical state, the generated field is not necessarily useful within the context of phase conjugation. For the case in which a quadrature-squeezed signal field is incide...

A planar active retrodirective four-element array with subharmonic phase conjugation mixers based on anti-parallel diode pairs (APDPs) is proposed. As compared to previous phase conjugation mixers using twice RF frequency for LO frequency, the proposed conjugation mixers need only half RF frequency so that it can be easily applied for millimeter-wave applications. Receive, transmitting, local o...

The optical phase conjugation (OPC) has been proposed to compensate for the chromatic dispersion to improve the bit rate of the optical transmission 1 Recently, the OPC is demonstrated to improve the bit rate of the transmission of the 1.55 m signal in the standard fiber with the loss compensated by the erbium—doped fiber amplifiers.23 This technique in fact can also be applied to improve the p...

'19 ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse if necessay ano identity by block number) We present analytical results for the steady-state signal and phase-conjugate fields interacting with smoothly varying nondepleted pump waves in a nearly degenerate four-wave-mixing geometry. Signal depletion is retained in the equations and we study the effect that detuning on the input signal from the degenerate pump ...