Re Prof. Fischer: A WAG from a guy who got a "D" in the quarter of Physics at Stanford that dealt with electro-magnetic and wave theory:
I see the most likely candidate as a passive pure optical switch as this seems most relevant to MRVC. This was the issue I tried to raise with my post several months ago with excerpts from the July Gilder Report that got zapped into a black hole. Gilder discussed two types of optical switches: liquid crystals from Chorum and micro mirrors from Astarte Fiber Networks. If any of you have access to the Gilder Report, go back and read this issue.(They are all archived on Gilder's site.) If you don't, I'll be happy to PM relevant excerpts to anyone who wants them.
There is a developing field of storage using holograms. I stumbled upon an article somewhere on SI about this and printed it out. I'll try to find it and post the URL.
A third area that I spotted in one of the references copied below was image compression. Could he be on to a way to compress and transmit images as lambdas instead of electrons?
9.B. Fischer, M. Cronin-Golomb, J.O. White and A. Yariv, ``Amplified Reflection, Transmission and Self-Oscillation in
Real-Time Holography', Optics Lett., Vol. 6, No. 11, p. 519, 1981.
2.B. Fischer, M. Cronin-Golomb, J.O. White and A. Yariv, ``Amplifying Continuous Wave Phase Conjugate Mirror with
Strontium Barium Niobate', Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 40, p. 863, 1982.
9.M. Cronin-Golomb, B. Fischer, J.O. White and A. Yariv, ``A Passive Phase Conjugate Mirror Based on Self-Induced
Oscillation in an Optical Ring Cavity', Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 42, p. 919, 1983.
36.S. Weiss, S. Sternklar and B. Fischer, ``Double Phase Conjugate Mirrors: Analysis, Operation and Applications',
Optics Lett., Vol. 12, p. 114, 1987.
38.S. Sternklar, S. Weiss and B. Fischer, ``Optical Information Processing with the Double Phase Conjugate Mirror',
Optical Engineering, Vol. 26, pp. 423-27, 1987.
56.S. Segev, Y. Ophir, B. Fischer and G. Eisenstein, ``Mode-Locking and Frequency tuning of a Laser Diode Array in an
External Cavity Using a Photorefractive Phase Conjugate Mirror', Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 57, 2523, 1990.
73.M. Horowitz, A. Bekker and B. Fischer, ``A New Image and Hologram Fixing Method with Srx Ba1-x Nbb2 O6
Crystals', Opt. Lett., Vol. 18, 1964, 1993.
75.M. Snowbell and B. Fischer, ``All optical Dynamic Range Compression of Images by Photorefractive Wave Mixing',
Appl. Opt. Vol. 33, 4480, 1994.
7.B. Fischer, ``Real Time Three Dimensional Imaging Through Fiber Bundles by a PC Window', IPS Bulletin, Vol. 30, p.
91, 1984.
9.B. Fischer, ``New Development and Devices with Passive Phase Conjugate Mirrors', Invited talk at the Annual Meeting
of The Israel Physical Society, IPS Bulletin, p. 28, 1985.
24.B. Fischer, S. Weiss and O. Werner, ``Coupled Double Phase Conjugate Mirrors in Photorefractive Materials', Conf.
on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, April 1989.
46.V. Modena, M. Horowitz and B. Fischer, ``Fixing of Holograms Induced by Photorefractive Oscillation', in the Tech.
Digest of PR-95, Meeting on "Photorefractive Materials, Effects and Devices" PR-95, Devices', (p. 247), Colorado,
June 11-14, 1995.
E. Patents
1.``Passive Phase Conjugate Mirror', Patent No. 451849: Issued as US Patent No. 4529273 on July 16, 1985.
2.``Optical Apparatus Particularly Useful as an Optical Gyro', USA Patent No. 4,765,740 , Aug. 23, 1988. (In Israel:
No. 74284). ``Optical Apparatusa and Method for Multi-Pumped Beam Coupling', Patent pending No. 79581, Israel,
July 31, 1986.
3.``Optical Apparatus and Method for Beam Coupling Useful in Light Beam Steering and Spatial Light Modulation',
Patent No. 81723, in Israel (March 1, 1987), and in the USA no. 4,869,579 (Sep. 26, 1989, and filed on July 28,
1987).
4.``Methods or Image Information Storage in Crystals and for Quasi-Phase Matching in Nonlinear Optics'. In
preparation.
5.``Method for Line Narrowing and of Lasers and Controllable Filtering by Wave, Mixing Especially Useable in Fiber
Amplifiers and Lasers'. In preparation.
.M. Snowbell, N. Strasman and B. Fischer, ``Efficient Self-Aligning Multi Beam Coupling into a Single Mode Fiber',
IEEE J. Light Wave Technology, Vol. 13, 55, 1995. |
