Abstract

Growing interest in mutually pumped phase conjugators (MPPCs) is being generated by their unique ability to operate with mutually incoherent pumping beams. This property makes them ideal candidates for applications in communications, laser locking, fiber optic gyros, and optical information processing. In the simple physical picture of MPPCs, the conjugate beams result from gratings that form between each pump beam and amplified scattering from that pump beam.

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