Electromagnetically Induced Grating - Writing, Reading and Phase Matching Conditions For EIG Diffraction

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:

,

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.

Read more about this topic:  Electromagnetically Induced Grating

Famous quotes containing the words reading, phase and/or conditions:

    After reading Howitt’s account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some gold daily, though it were only the finest particles,—why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
    Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)