The ability of phase conjugation to correct phase aberrations produced by distorting media has received much attention and most of the reported experiments involve passing a field through the distorting medium, phase conjugating the resulting distorted field and passing this back through the distorting medium. We present an analysis showing that two independent fields having the same plane wave spectra can be used to predistort a signal wave. By mixing in a slow non-linear medium one way correction of a thick distorting medium is possible.

Date Published: 27 March 1985
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 0492, 1984 European Conf on Optics, Optical Systems, and Applications, (27 March 1985); doi: 10.1117/12.943725

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0492:
1984 European Conf on Optics, Optical Systems, and Applications
Bouwe Bolger; Hedzer A. Ferwerda, Editor(s)