• DocumentCode
    3542680
  • Title

    Cascading processes in femtosecond regime and measurement of second-order nonlinearity in nonlinear crystals

  • Author

    Rassoul, R.M. ; Ivanov, A. ; Cussat-Blanc, S. ; Freysz, E. ; Ducasse, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Centre de Phys. Moleculaire Opt. et Hertzienne, Bordeaux I Univ., Talence, France
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    3-8 May 1998
  • Firstpage
    272
  • Lastpage
    273
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. We show that the induced cascading modification of the spectral density of the harmonic pulses can be easily seen in the femtosecond regime. We demonstrate that this allows a direct measurement of the second order crystal nonlinear coefficient.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; cascading processes; direct measurement; femtosecond regime; harmonic pulses; induced cascading modification; nonlinear crystals; second order crystal nonlinear coefficient; second-order nonlinearity; spectral density; Chromium; Crystals; Fourier transforms; Frequency conversion; Phase measurement; Pulse generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-339-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.1998.676156
  • Filename
    676156