{"title":"A Self-Organizing Photorefractive Frequency Decoder","authors":"M. Saffman, C. Benkert, D. Anderson","doi":"10.1364/pmed.1991.wc6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a self-organizing photorefractive circuit which decodes optical signals. The circuit is a pair of ring resonators with photorefractive gain and cooperative and competitive mode interactions. When a spatially multimode beam containing two optical carrier frequencies is used as the pump, the resonator self-organizes such that each frequency oscillates in spatially separate rings. Initial results, with a two crystal BaTiO3 resonator, show a contrast ratio of better than 20:1 at the two outputs.","PeriodicalId":355924,"journal":{"name":"Photorefractive Materials, Effects, and Devices","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1991-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Photorefractive Materials, Effects, and Devices","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/pmed.1991.wc6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We demonstrate a self-organizing photorefractive circuit which decodes optical signals. The circuit is a pair of ring resonators with photorefractive gain and cooperative and competitive mode interactions. When a spatially multimode beam containing two optical carrier frequencies is used as the pump, the resonator self-organizes such that each frequency oscillates in spatially separate rings. Initial results, with a two crystal BaTiO3 resonator, show a contrast ratio of better than 20:1 at the two outputs.