Abstract

We describe experiments in which a weak laser pulse is phase conjugated by using a high-gain Brillouin amplifier in front of a stimulated Brillouin scattering phase-conjugate mirror. We observe phase conjugation with signal energies as low as 3 × 10⁻¹³ J and with a maximum reflection coefficient of 2 × 10⁸.

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