INFLUENCE OF CASCADING PHENOMENA ON A TYPE-I 2ND-HARMONIC WAVE GENERATED BY AN INTENSE FEMTOSECOND PULSE - APPLICATION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF THE EFFECTIVE 2ND-ORDER COEFFICIENT

Authors
CUSSATBLANC S RASSOUL RM IVANOV A FREYSZ E DUCASSE A
Citation
S. Cussatblanc et al., INFLUENCE OF CASCADING PHENOMENA ON A TYPE-I 2ND-HARMONIC WAVE GENERATED BY AN INTENSE FEMTOSECOND PULSE - APPLICATION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF THE EFFECTIVE 2ND-ORDER COEFFICIENT, Optics letters, 23(20), 1998, pp. 1585-1587
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
23
Issue
20
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1585 - 1587
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1998)23:20<1585:IOCPOA>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We have studied the influence of cascaded second-order effects on the spectral density of a second-harmonic pulse generated in thin KDP and beta-barium berate crystals by an intense femtosecond pulse. A noticea ble evolution of spectral density is recorded for any value of phase m ismatch. This evolution is in good agreement with the solution of the nonlinear propagation equation and allows a simple direct measurement of the effective susceptibility of the studied crystals. (C) 1998 Opti cal Society of America.