Authors: Mazurenko, Y.T.; Putilin, S.E.

Source: Journal of Holography and Speckle, Volume 5, Number 1, April 2009 , pp. 94-102(9)

Publisher: American Scientific Publishers

Abstract:

This paper is an overview of principles and achievements in two interrelated areas of optics: spectral holography and spectral nonlinear optics. These two areas became possible after advent of ultrashort optical pulses turned out to be short enough to accomplish, for the first time in optics, Fourier analysis and synthesis of temporal signals. Spectral holography, based on the principles of holography of spatial signals, allows one to detect, reconstruct, reverse in time and recognize optical pulses. Spectral nonlinear optics, based on the principles of dynamic holography of spatial signals, gives one the possibilities to perform ultrafast transforms of optical signals using the schemes: "time-to-time," "time-to space," "space-to-time" (in the addition to only "space-to-space" scheme in the normal dynamic holography). To a definite extent, this paper rests on the works carried out by our group in St. Petersburg Vavilov (S.I.) State Optical Institute, beginning from 1980s. We were fortunate that Yuri Denisyuk also worked there, not far from us, and we could communicate with him as often as we needed. His lively interest in our work, his discussions, his support and his encouragements were invaluable and are still important for us.

Keywords: HOLOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL HOLOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL NONLINEAR OPTICS; TIME-DOMAIN FOURIER OPTICS; ULTRAFAST PROCESSES

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jhs.2009.014

Publication date: 2009-04-01

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