SPECULAR NONLINEAR ANISOTROPIC POLARIZATION EFFECT ALONG FOURFOLD CRYSTAL SYMMETRY AXES

Authors
BUNGAY AR POPOV SV ZHELUDEV NI SVIRKO YP
Citation
Ar. Bungay et al., SPECULAR NONLINEAR ANISOTROPIC POLARIZATION EFFECT ALONG FOURFOLD CRYSTAL SYMMETRY AXES, Optics letters, 20(4), 1995, pp. 356-358
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
20
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
356 - 358
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1995)20:4<356:SNAPEA>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We present what is to our knowledge the first experimental observation of the specular nonlinear anisotropic polarization effect of a pump-i nduced polarization-plane rotation for normal-incidence reflection fro m the (001) surface of a cubic crystal. In GaAs, azimuth rotation of t he order of 9 x 10(-6) rad is seen for a pump intensity of 75 MW cm(-2 ) at 750 nm, from which the anisotropic component of the cubic nonline arity \Re((chi xxxx) - 2(chi xxyy) - (chi xyyx))\ = 5 x 10(-9) esu is found.