Abstract:
A signal detector and/or display system includes a bleachable dye medium whose transparency to optical signals is nonlinearly related to the intensities of coincident signals transmitted through the medium. A pulse of picosecond width is detected and the pulse width measured by causing the pulse to overlap itself within the medium. A complex signal is displayed by sampling the signal with a picosecond pulse within the medium.
Abstract:
A laser device for operation in the X-ray region comprises a resonator of three-dimensional polygonal shape having Bragg angle reflections at the apices of the polygon. The laser is pumped by removing electrons from the innermost shelfs of atoms of the active medium in synchronism with generation of X-rays traveling in the active medium. Pumping energy is achieved by collisions of relativistic particles and laser beams or by laser beam impingement on X-ray-emitting material.
Abstract:
THE OPTICAL FREQUENCY OF A COHERENT OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN IS SHIFTED BY MEANS OF AN ELECTRO-OPTIC CRYSTAL TO WHICH IS APPLIED A SINUSOIDAL ELECTRIC FIELD SYNCHRONIZED IN FREQUENCY (WITH THE PULSE REPETITION RATE) AND PHASE WITH THE PULSE TRAIN. THE PHASE IS ADJUSTED SUCH THAT REFRACTION INDEX OF THE CRYSTAL IS CHANGING AT ITS FASTEST RATE WHEN A PULSE TRANSVERSES THE CRYSTAL. THE CHANGE IN INDEX OF REFRACTION OF THE CRYSTAL IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE
MAGNITUDE OF THE APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD, HENCE THE TOTAL FREQUENCY SHIFT IS GOVERNED BY THE NUMBER OF REFLECTIONS AND THE APPLIED FIELD, THE MAGNITUDE OF WHICH IS MADE CONTROLLABLE.