摘要:
The invention relates to the interferometric detection of reciprocal and non-reciprocal effects affecting the propagation of optical radiation in a two-armed interferometer. The invention relates to a two-armed interferometer terminating by a photorefractive medium used as an interactive reflector according to the four-wave interferometer principle.The invention particularly applies to the measurement of physical quantities such as displacement, linear velocity, angular velocity, magnetic field, pressure and temperature.
摘要:
An interferometric device for measuring an angular rotational speed comprising an amplifying photo refractive crystal placed in the path of optical guide means forming a closed loop. Two signal waves penetrate into said crystal so as to obtain two contrarotating waves of different optical frequencies and of amplitudes restored by amplification in the crystal, moving in said closed loop.
摘要:
A holographic process is provided for recording-reading by means of index strata in the volume of a photoexcitable storage medium. This process consists in causing two beams to interfere in this medium during two successive writing steps by using writing radiations of different wavelengths. The reading of this medium is then effected by means of a third coherent radiation having for wave vector in the medium a linear combination of the wave vectors of said writing radiations.
摘要:
A laser includes a gas enclosure placed in an optical cavity and receiving a pump beam to generate at least one first-order and one second-order Stokes wave. One of the mirrors of the cavity is transparent to wavelengths which are higher than the first-order Stokes wave.
摘要:
A system for the display of images comprising:a spatial modulator of light receiving a first light beam and retransmitting a modulated beam;an energy transfer device receiving the modulated beam and a second light beam and transferring the energy from the second light beam towards the modulated beam.
摘要:
The hydrophone has an interferometer structure incorporating a measuring arm in which is provided a very long monomodal optical fibre immersed in the interaction medium in which is propagated the acoustic wave. A phase displacement is induced on the optical wave by the elastooptical effect and said wave is propagated in the fibre by the acoustic wave which creates an acoustic pressure field in the medium. A reference arm establishes a reference optical path and the phase displacement linked with the acoustic wave is detected by interferometry between the two optical waves emerging from the two arms. The optical connections between the source, the optical fibre immersed in the interaction medium, the reference arm and the detector being provided in guided optics in a compact structure.
摘要:
A method for the optical writing of information elements uses a material (Ma) that is highly non-linear optically, on which it is possible to record information elements with sizes several times smaller than the writing wavelength. Also disclosed is a method for the reading of information elements recorded on a material (Ma) deposited on a material (Mb) capable of being the site of a stimulated emission generating the reading of the recorded information elements. Applications: high definition television, digital sound.
摘要:
A laser having a glass enclosure placed in an optical cavity receives a pump beam and generates at least one first-order and one second-order Stokes wave. The construction is such that an optical waveguide placed in the gas enclosure is used to select the first and the second-order Stokes wave.
摘要:
A miniature optical source which includes at least one thin film of active laser materials having, in addition, non-linear properties. A pump laser for emitting a beam of a wavelength allowing for the pumping of the thin film of active laser material perpendicularly to the plane of the thin film. Also, an optical cavity constituted by two mirrors whose coefficients of reflection are maximum at the laser wavelength of the active laser material is further provided. The miniature optical source may find particular application in a physically compact laser emitting in the visible spectrum.
摘要:
A sensor is used to measure a physical quantity and includes at least: a measurement optical fiber including at least one Bragg grating; optical means designed to inject, into the fiber, a first, “pump” wave at a first optical frequency and a second, “probe” wave at a second optical frequency, the second optical frequency being different from the first optical frequency, the Bragg grating being designed to reflect the first and second optical waves, and the optical power of the first wave being sufficient to give, after interaction with the second wave reflected by stimulated Brillouin scattering, a “Stokes” wave, the frequency of which is representative of the physical quantity to be measured; and means for analyzing the difference in frequency between the two, “pump” and “Stokes”, optical waves. The sensor may notably be used as a hydrophone.