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Two-Beam Diffraction Patterns From Transverse Self-and Cross-Phase Modulation in a Nonlinear Medium
Published
Author(s)
R Gealy, Kevin Jones, M Trippenbach, Eite Tiesinga, Paul D. Lett
Abstract
The well-known diffraction rings resulting from spatially-varyingself-phase modulation in a nonlinear medium can be dramaticallyaltered in a partially-overlapping two-beam configuration.The cross-phase modulation caused by partially-overlapping beamsin liquid crystals and in Rb vapor near resonance is shown to resultin a change from circular rings to symmetric half-circle orD-shaped rings. The cross-phase modulation required to producethis sharp geometric change is shown to be insensitive to the exactphase pattern imprinted by the second beam.
Gealy, R.
, Jones, K.
, Trippenbach, M.
, Tiesinga, E.
and Lett, P.
(2003),
Two-Beam Diffraction Patterns From Transverse Self-and Cross-Phase Modulation in a Nonlinear Medium, Optics Letters
(Accessed October 11, 2025)