A detailed analysis of the optical reflectivity of a monolithic, T-shaped surface relief grating structure is carried out. It is shown that by changing the groove depths and widths, the frequency-dependent reflectivity of the diffraction grating can be greatly modified to obtain various specific optical elements. The basic T-shaped grating structure is optimized for three specific applications: a perfect mirror with a wide maximal reflection plateau, a bandpass filter, and a dichroic beam splitter. These specific mirrors could be used to steer the propagation of bichromatic laser fields, in situations where multilayer dielectric mirrors cannot be applied due to their worse thermomechanical properties. Colored maps are presented to show the reflection dependency on the variation of several critical structure parameters. To check the accuracy of the numerical results, four independent methods are used: finite-difference time-domain, finite-difference frequency-domain, method of lines, and rigorous coupled-wave analysis. The results of the independent numerical methods agree very well with each other indicating their correctness.
It is shown that the classical and quantum mechanical description of first and second order nonlinear optical processes (including squeezing) are equivalent in the sense that in both cases an initial phase space distribution transforms in the same manner. We investigate in detail the degenerate three wave mixing, which is a third order process, and point out that the classical and quantum descriptions give essentially different results. This process yields three-pointed star states. It is pointed out that the efficiency of the star state in a three photon process is superior to that of a coherent state with two orders of magnitude.
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Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics II
26 May 2004 | Maspalomas, Gran Canaria Island, Spain
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