Applications of optical phase conjugation

APR 01, 1981

Light waves that are, in effect, time‐reversed images of their original can serve to restore severely aberrated waves to their original state.

DOI: 10.1063/1.2914508

Concetto R. Giuliano

The recently discovered generation of conjugate waves in the course of observing several nonlinear optical phenomena has attracted a lot of attention in the international technical community. Much of the interest arises from a fascination with the idea of “time reversal” and with impressive, almost magical demonstrations in which severely distorted optical beams can be restored to their original, unaberrated state.

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Concetto R. Giuliano. Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California.