Optical-parametric-amplification imaging of complex objects

doi:10.1364/OE.19.008920

Optical-parametric-amplification imaging of complex objects

Peter M. Vaughan and Rick Trebino »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 9, pp. 8920-8929 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.008920

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We used ultrafast Fourier-plane optical-parametric-amplification (OPA) imaging to simultaneously image, wavelength-shift, and amplify complex two-dimensional objects with spatial features from 1.1 to 10.1 line pairs/millimeter (lp/mm) in the vertical dimension and from 2.0 to 16.0 lp/mm in the horizontal dimension, corresponding to a two-dimensional space-bandwidth product (SBP) of ~46,000. This represents an increase in image complexity over previous analogous OPA imaging systems by over three orders of magnitude. We observe both wavelength-shifting the image from 930nm to a wavelength of 700nm and image amplification by two orders of magnitude. Our wavelength-shifted image has a SBP of ~30,000.

OCIS Codes
(110.3080) Imaging systems : Infrared imaging
(190.4970) Nonlinear optics : Parametric oscillators and amplifiers
(190.7220) Nonlinear optics : Upconversion
(320.0320) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast optics
(320.7110) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics

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Original Manuscript: February 22, 2011
Revised Manuscript: April 1, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: April 13, 2011
Published: April 22, 2011

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Peter M. Vaughan and Rick Trebino, "Optical-parametric-amplification imaging of complex objects," Opt. Express 19, 8920-8929 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-9-8920

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[1] J. A. Armstrong, N. Bloembergen, J. Ducuing, and P. S. Pershan, “Interactions between light waves in a nonlinear dielectric,” Phys. Rev. 127(6), 1918–1939 (1962). [CrossRef]

[2] C. C. Wang and G. W. Racette, “Measurement of parametric gain accompanying optical difference frequency generation,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 6(8), 169–171 (1965). [CrossRef]

[3] F. Zernike and J. E. Midwinter, Applied Nonlinear Optics (Wiley, 1973).

[4] J. E. Midwinter, “Image conversion from 1.6um to the visible in lithium niobate,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 12(3), 68–71 (1968). [CrossRef]

[5] E. Lantz and F. Devaux, “Parametric amplification of images,” J. Opt. B Quantum Semiclassical Opt. 9(2), 279–286 (1997). [CrossRef]

[6] F. Devaux and E. Lantz, “Parametric amplification of a polychromatic image,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12(11), 2245–2253 (1995). [CrossRef]

[7] F. Devaux, E. Lantz, A. Lacourt, D. Gindre, H. Maillotte, P. A. Doreau, and T. Laurent, “Picosecond parametric amplification of a monochromatic image,” Nonlinear Opt. 11, 25–38 (1995).

[8] F. Devaux and E. Lantz, “Transfer function of spatial frequencies in parametric image amplification: experimental analysis and application to picosecond spatial filtering,” Opt. Commun. 114(3-4), 295–300 (1995). [CrossRef]

[9] J. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics (Roberts & Company Publishers, 2004).

[10] D. Guthals and D. Sox, “Quantum limited optical parametric image amplification,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers, 1989), 808–816.

[11] G. W. Faris and M. Banks, “Upconverting time gate for imaging through highly scattering media,” Opt. Lett. 19(22), 1813–1816 (1994). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[12] A. H. Firester, “Image upconversion: part III,” J. Appl. Phys. 41(2), 703–710 (1970). [CrossRef]

[13] P. V. Avizonis, F. A. Hopf, D. W. Bomberger, S. F. Jacobs, A. Tomita, and K. H. Womack, “Optical phase conjugation in a lithium formate crystal,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 31(7), 435–438 (1977). [CrossRef]

[14] L. Lefort and A. Barthelemy, “Revisiting optical phase conjugation by difference-frequency generation,” Opt. Lett. 21(12), 848–850 (1996). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[15] F. Devaux, G. Le Tolguenec, and E. Lantz, “Phase conjugate imaging by type II parametric amplification,” Opt. Commun. 147(4-6), 309–312 (1998). [CrossRef]

[16] A. W. Lohmann, R. G. Dorsch, D. Mendlovic, Z. Zalevsky, and C. Ferreira, “Space-bandwidth product of optical signals and systems,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 13(3), 470–473 (1996). [CrossRef]

[17] F. Devaux, A. Mosset, E. Lantz, S. Monneret, and H. Le Gall, “Image upconversion from the visible to the UV domain: application to dynamic UV microstereolithography,” Appl. Opt. 40(28), 4953–4957 (2001). [CrossRef]

[18] J. S. Dam, C. Pedersen, and P. Tidemand-Lichtenberg, “High-resolution two-dimensional image upconversion of incoherent light,” Opt. Lett. 35(22), 3796–3798 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[19] J. Watson, P. Georges, T. Lépine, B. Alonzi, and A. Brun, “Imaging in diffuse media with ultrafast degenerate optical parametric amplification,” Opt. Lett. 20(3), 231–233 (1995). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[20] R. W. Boyd, Nonlinear Optics (Academic Press, 2002).

[21] N. P. Barnes and V. J. Corcoran, “Parametric generation processes: spectral bandwidth and acceptance angles,” Appl. Opt. 15(3), 696–699 (1976). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[22] A. Shirakawa and T. Kobayashi, “Noncollinearly phase-matched femtosecond optical parametric amplification with a 2000 cm−1 bandwidth,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 72(2), 147–149 (1998). [CrossRef]

[23] I. Jovanovic, B. J. Comaskey, and D. M. Pennington, “Angular effects and beam quality in optical parametric amplification,” J. Appl. Phys. 90(9), 4328–4337 (2001). [CrossRef]

[24] W. H. Louisell, A. Yariv, and A. E. Siegman, “Quantum fluctuations and noise in parametric processes. I,” Phys. Rev. 124(6), 1646–1654 (1961). [CrossRef]

[25] V. Krylov, J. Gallus, U. P. Wild, A. Kalintsev, and A. Rebane, “Femtosecond noncollinear and collinear parametric generation and amplification in BBO crystal,” Appl. Phys. B 70(2), 163–168 (2000). [CrossRef]

[26] R. Trebino, Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002).

[27] R. A. Andrews, “IR image parametric up-conversion,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 6(1), 68–80 (1970). [CrossRef]

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