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Biopolymer-based material for optical phase conjugation

J. MYSLIWIEC1,* , A. MINIEWICZ1, I. RAU2, O. KRUPKA3, B. SAHRAOUI3, F. KAJZAR3, J. GROTE4

Affiliation

  1. Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
  2. POLITECHNICA University of Bucharest, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science Str. Polizu nr. 1, Bucharest, Romania
  3. Laboratoire POMA CNRS UMR 6136, Universite d’Angers, 2 Bd. Lavoisier, 49 045 Angers, France
  4. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA

Abstract

We present results of optical phase conjugation experiments in modified DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) - dye system. The system consisted of a biopolymeric matrix made of DNA blended with cationic surfactant molecule cetyltrimethyl-ammonium chloride (CTMA) and doped with a photochromic dye Disperse Red 1. Results were obtained in a typical degenerate four wave mixing experiment. For sample excitation we used linearly polarized light at a wavelength 514.5 nm, delivered by an argon ion (Ar+) laser. The phase conjugated signal which emerged from the sample had rise and fall time constants of a few milliseconds with an excellent reversibility..

Keywords

Phase conjugation, Holography, Nonlinear optics.

Submitted at: June 20, 2008
Accepted at: July 10, 2008

Citation

J. MYSLIWIEC, A. MINIEWICZ, I. RAU, O. KRUPKA, B. SAHRAOUI, F. KAJZAR, J. GROTE, Biopolymer-based material for optical phase conjugation, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 10, Iss. 8, pp. 2146-2150 (2008)