| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 70, Number 1, April 2005
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 88 - 94 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, optics, acoustics, heat transfer, classical mechanics, and fluid dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2004-10469-9 | |
| Published online | 04 March 2005 | |
Polarization and modal attractors in conservative counterpropagating four-wave interaction
1
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Université de Bourgogne - Dijon, France
2
LPMC, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis - Nice, France
3
Service d'Optique et d'Acoustique, Université Libre de Bruxelles - Bruxelles, Belgium
Received:
10
November
2004
Accepted:
9
February
2005
An experimental and theoretical study of the resonant four-wave interaction scheme in the counterpropagating configuration reveals the existence of a novel attraction process in Hamiltonian systems. We show analytically that it is the specificity of the boundary conditions inherent in the counterpropagating configuration that makes attraction dynamics possible in spite of the reversible nature of the four-wave interaction. In the context of optics, this novel dynamical feature could be the basic mechanism of a universal polarizer performing total polarization conversion of unpolarized light with, in principle, 100% efficiency.
PACS: 42.65.-k – Nonlinear optics / 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems / 42.81.Dp – Propagation, scattering, and losses; solitons
© EDP Sciences, 2005
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