Second-harmonic parametric scattering in ferroelectric crystals with disordered nonlinear domain structures

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2007-11-15

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Trull, Jose
Cojocaru, Crina
Fischer, Robert
Saltiel, Solomon
Staliunas, Kestutis
Herrero, Ramon
Vilaseca, Ramon
Neshev, Dragomir
Krolikowski, Wieslaw
Kivshar, Yuri

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Optical Society of America

Abstract

We study the second-harmonic (SH) parametric processes in unpoled crystals of Strontium Barium Niobate (SBN) with disordered structures of ferroelectric domains. Such crystals allow for the simultaneous phase matching of several second-order nonlinear processes. We analyze the polarization properties of these parametric processes using two types of generation schemes: quasi-collinear SH generation and transverse SH generation. From our experimental data we determine the ratio of d32 and d33 components of the second order susceptibility tensor and also the statistical properties of the random structure of the SBN crystal.

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nonlinear optics, harmonic generation and mixing, nonlinear optics, transverse effects, scattering

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Optics Express 15.24 (2007): 15868-15877

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Optics Express

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