• DocumentCode
    1081948
  • Title

    Pump depletion and saturation of two-photon resonant third-harmonic generation processes

  • Author

    Kildal, H. ; Brueck, Steven R J

  • Author_Institution
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA, USA
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1980
  • fDate
    5/1/1980 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    566
  • Lastpage
    573
  • Abstract
    Theoretical efficiency limitations for a two-photon resonant third-harmonic generation (THG) process are analyzed in a treatment which includes all nonlinear processes associated with the two-photon resonance assuming negligible material excitation. Results are presented for both collimated-beam and tight-focusing geometries. The theory is applied to experimental results for THG of CO2laser radiation in liquid CO-O2mixtures; good agreement is found for the observed saturation in the THG efficiency in a tight-focusing geometry.
  • Keywords
    Carbon dioxide lasers; Carbon materials/devices; Optical frequency conversion; Optical resonance; Absorption; Atomic beams; Frequency conversion; Geometrical optics; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical materials; Raman scattering; Resonance; Stationary state;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1980.1070521
  • Filename
    1070521
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1081948