NEW OPTICAL PHENOMENA IN LASER INSULATING CRYSTAL HOSTS WITH 3RD-ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITIES

Authors
KAMINSKII AA NISHIOKA H KUBOTA Y UEDA K TAKUMA H BAGAEV SN PAVLYUK AA
Citation
Aa. Kaminskii et al., NEW OPTICAL PHENOMENA IN LASER INSULATING CRYSTAL HOSTS WITH 3RD-ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITIES, Physica status solidi. a, Applied research, 148(2), 1995, pp. 619-628
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter
Journal title
Physica status solidi. a, Applied research → ACNP
ISSN journal
00318965
Volume
148
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
619 - 628
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-8965(1995)148:2<619:NOPILI>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Besides the multiple cascade stimulated Raman scattering, new optical nonlinear phenomena in laser crystal hosts are observed, in particular , in monoclinic KY(WO4)(2) and KGd(WO4)(2) compounds, under high densi ty visible nano- and picosecond laser excitation in single-pass geomet ry. The first one is a ''laser rainbow'', a multiple co-axial ring Sto kes Raman emission by four-wave mixing parametric processes, and the s econd one is the self-trapping (filamentation) of the propagating lase r pump beam and Stokes generation.