Abstract
We have repeated the classic experiment of Wiener,1 which established the nature of the standing-wave pattern produced by reflection at the surface of a metallic mirror, with the metallic mirror used in his experiment replaced by a phase-conjugate mirror. We find that the positions of the fringes produced by interference between the wave incident on the phase-conjugate mirror and the wave leaving the mirror depends on the phase of the incident wave. This result is in contrast to that obtained through the use of a metallic mirror, in which case the interference pattern is found to be independent of the phase of the incident wave. The origin of the different behavior in these two cases lies in the fact that the phases of the waves that pump the PCM provide a reference through which phase information carried by the signal wave can be obtained. The experimental results are in excellent quantitative agreement with recent theoretical predictions.2
© 1986 Optical Society of America
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