FEMTOSECOND TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR MEASUREMENT OF KERR-LIKE CASCADED 2ND-ORDER NONLINEARITIES

Authors
ALBERT O ETCHEPARE J
Citation
O. Albert et J. Etchepare, FEMTOSECOND TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR MEASUREMENT OF KERR-LIKE CASCADED 2ND-ORDER NONLINEARITIES, Optics communications, 154(5-6), 1998, pp. 345-349
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
154
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1998
Pages
345 - 349
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1998)154:5-6<345:FTBMOK>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
We present a pump-probe technique that enables to describe the tempora l behavior of the phase shift induced by cascaded second-order non-lin earities inherent to frequency mixing processes. We have measured this shift for degenerate and non-degenerate frequency summation from femt osecond pulses in a beta-baryum berate crystal. We also demonstrate th e associate appearance of a non-linear chirp. (C) 1998 Published by El sevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.