Writing, Reading and Phase Matching Conditions For EIG Diffraction
Figure 1 shows a possible beam configuration to write and read an EIG. The period of the grating is controlled by the angle . The writing and reading frequencies are not necessarily the same. E_B is referred as the "backward" reading beam and ER is the signal obtained by diffraction on the grating.
The phase-matching conditions for the EIG for the plane-wave approximation is given by the simple geometric relation:
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where the angles are given according to Fig. 2, and are the frequencies of the writing (W, W') and reading beam (R), respectively, and n is the effective index of refraction of the medium.
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